{"id":26218,"date":"2021-09-07T08:16:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=26218"},"modified":"2021-09-07T09:02:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:02:25","slug":"uganda-receives-647080-doses-moderna-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/07\/uganda-receives-647080-doses-moderna-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Receives 647,080 Doses Of Moderna Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda yesterday received 647,080 doses of Moderna vaccine from the Biden-Harris administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUganda receives a donation of 647,080 doses of the Moderna vaccine from the Government of the United States of America under the dose sharing arrangement through the COVAX Facility. This will supplement that ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise in the country,\u201d the tweet from Ministry of Health timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was also revealed that Moderna vaccine will be administered to Ugandans who will be taking their 1<sup>st<\/sup> jabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Moderna vaccine that we have received today will be strictly administered to the priority population groups who have not received their 1st dose of any COVID-19 vaccine,\u201d said Health minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Mordena-Ug-Mirror-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Mordena-Ug-Mirror-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Mordena-Ug-Mirror-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Mordena-Ug-Mirror-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Mordena-Ug-Mirror-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Mordena-Ug-Mirror.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She further added that; \u201c\u201cThe Moderna vaccine is administered in 2 doses, 4 weeks apart. It should be noted that the Moderna vaccine cannot be mixed with any other COVID-19 vaccine currently being rolled out in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUganda will receive 1.6 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine under the same dose sharing arrangement before the end of September\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the ongoing vaccination exercise, a total of 1,044,871 people have received the 1st dose of the vaccine while 431,655 have received their 2nd dose\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda yesterday received 647,080 doses of Moderna vaccine from the Biden-Harris administration. \u201cUganda receives a donation of 647,080 doses of the Moderna vaccine from the Government of the United States of America under the dose sharing arrangement through the COVAX Facility. This will supplement that ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise in the country,\u201d the tweet from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":26220,"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":[98,467],"tags":[633,31,666,6840],"class_list":["post-26218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-health","tag-covid-19","tag-featured","tag-ministry-of-health-uganda","tag-mordena-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26218","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=26218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26229,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26218\/revisions\/26229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}