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COVID-19: MOH Urges Elderly to get Booster Jabs Amidst Upsurge

Dorothy Nalumansi by Dorothy Nalumansi
December 23, 2021
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URN.Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng told a press conference this afternoon that the country has for many months been keeping infections below 5% but with the rise, they have resolved to protect those at most risk of severe disease even as the country has not yet hit 50% vaccination coverage which is recommended for any country to start dispensing boosters.

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The Ministry of Health -MOH has asked the elderly and those living with other health conditions that compromise immunity to seek booster doses of COVID-19 jabs.

This development comes after the country registered a hundred percent increase in cases in the last week. According to test results released on Thursday, the country recorded 710 new cases at a test positivity rate of 10.1%.

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Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng told a press conference this afternoon that the country has for many months been keeping infections below 5% but with the rise, they have resolved to protect those at most risk of severe disease even as the country has not yet hit 50% vaccination coverage which is recommended for any country to start dispensing boosters.

She says all those above 50 years of age and have now passed six months after they finished their initial jabs can get a booster.

According to Dr. Misaki Wayengere who heads the COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Committee, booster doses would be recommended even in areas that are seeing re-emergence of infections.  But this will be opened up in January when it is expected that the country will have hit the target of 50% of the 22million targeted for vaccination.

Currently, in terms of vaccination coverage, 43% of the targeted people have received their first jab with about 1.9million  getting inoculated with the single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Those that are fully vaccinated account for just 15.5% of the target population, which is still way too low to the 50% World Health Organization threshold.

For now, however, with plans of doubling vaccination coverage, experts encourage the public to keep observing Standard Operating Procedures of wearing masks, physical distancing and hand hygiene.

   According to MOH figures, Wakiso is currently topping districts with the highest new infections at 46% followed by Kampala at 38%, followed by the border districts of Amuru and Kyotera.

 Aceng said when they analyzed this data, they established that most of the people testing positive are travelers who arrived in the country through Entebbe airport from countries including Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, UK and the United Arab Emirates. 

She attributes the increase to the new COVID-19 omicron variant warning that though this virus mostly gives mild infection, the few that can get severe infection would affect the already fragile health system.

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