{"id":24549,"date":"2021-06-17T10:36:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=24549"},"modified":"2021-06-17T10:41:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:41:58","slug":"uganda-receives-175k-astrazeneca-doses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/17\/uganda-receives-175k-astrazeneca-doses\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Receives 175k AstraZeneca Doses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda received an additional 175,200 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesdaynight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The doses come at a time when the country is in the middle of a deadly second wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Moses Kamabare &#8211; General Manager, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nmsuganda?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@nmsuganda<\/a>: Last night, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nmsuganda?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@nmsuganda<\/a> received 175,200 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#COVID19<\/a> vaccines. These are part of the COVAX facility vaccines that came into the country at 10.00 pm last night. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVIDVaccinationUG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#COVIDVaccinationUG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4ohqUQcf1q\">pic.twitter.com\/4ohqUQcf1q<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Uganda Media Centre (@UgandaMediaCent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UgandaMediaCent\/status\/1405425227291561985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 17, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, the Ministry of Health revealed that 49 people had succumbed to the virus in 14th June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vaccines that arrived in Wednesday were donated by the French government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health Ministry officials say first priority will be given to those waiting for their second jabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda received an additional 175,200 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesdaynight. The doses come at a time when the country is in the middle of a deadly second wave. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Health revealed that 49 people had succumbed to the virus in 14th June. The vaccines that arrived in Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":24552,"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":[467,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-24549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24549","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=24549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24559,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24549\/revisions\/24559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}