{"id":22167,"date":"2021-03-05T16:17:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T13:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22167"},"modified":"2021-03-05T16:20:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T13:20:32","slug":"uganda-receives-first-batch-of-covid19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/05\/uganda-receives-first-batch-of-covid19-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Receives First Batch Of COVID19 Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initial batch of 864,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Uganda?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Uganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng received the consignment on Friday afternoon accompanied by health ministry officials and World Health Organisation (WHO) representative in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;An exciting day for us as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Uganda?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Uganda<\/a> received the initial batch of 864,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and shipped via the COVAX facility. Thank you to all who made this possible,&#8221; Aceng said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health care providers, security personnel, teachers, persons aged 50 years and above and those with underlying health conditions to benefit from phase one of vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also present to receive the vaccines were US Ambassador to Uganda and envoys from the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI urge all people who have been identified for the initial and subsequent vaccination of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#COVID19<\/a> to turn up and take this life-saving vaccine. By protecting ourselves we also protect our loved ones,\u201d WHO&#8217;s Yonas Tegegn WOLDEMARIAM said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initial batch of 864,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in #Uganda. Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng received the consignment on Friday afternoon accompanied by health ministry officials and World Health Organisation (WHO) representative in Uganda. &#8220;An exciting day for us as #Uganda received the initial batch of 864,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":22168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,467,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-22167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-health","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22170,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22167\/revisions\/22170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}