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✳️ The COVID-19 vaccine should be given out free to every Ugandan citizen. FREE.

✳️ It has been done before, with @gavi support, for all the other immunisable killer diseases.

#GoodMorning 🌄
#Uganda 🇺🇬

@gavi After the incomplete story of :
📍 Food
📍 Masks 😷
📍 Radios

With no promise at all for financial relief for us ordinary citizens after the lockdown, THE LEAST Uganda 🇺🇬 can do for us, is save our lives.

✅ FREE COVID-19 vaccines and medicines 💊💉 for all Ugandan citizens

@gavi 💠 Plans by @MinofHealthUG @GovUganda to charge Ugandans outside the priority list [security personal, teachers & health workers] sh62,000 Shillings ($17) each, will leave many, very many Ugandans already struggling without Govt help to survive post-COVID, unimmunized 💊💉.

@gavi @MinofHealthUG @GovUganda 📌 The layman in me even thinks the older persons, not health workers are most vulnerable. That should be the priority. Ugandans above 65 are only 1 million.

📍 🇺🇬 pop. est. figure 45m
✳️ Aged 0-14yrs - 46%
✳️ Aged 65+ - 2%
✳️ Life expectancy 64yrs

independent.co.ug/security-teach…

@gavi @MinofHealthUG @GovUganda ✳️ Uganda can surely afford to look after its 1 million eldest persons.

✳️ If those are immunized before March 1, the risk of the school goers infecting them will have been erased.

✳️ Focus can turn to 50s+, teachers, health workers, then security.

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@gavi @MinofHealthUG @GovUganda I repeat, The COVID-19 vaccine should be given out free to every Ugandan citizen. FREE.

@gavi @who @CEPIvaccines and the rich countries have made it affordable ($3 a dose) under the COVAX initiative + India's @narendramodi is our friend.

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READ 👇 independent.co.ug/uganda-countin…

@gavi @MinofHealthUG @GovUganda @WHO @CEPIvaccines @narendramodi ✅ The success of any vaccination programme is in numbers reached.

❇️ Majority Ugandans could be left out because of costs, or bias.

❇️ Imagine asking a boda guy, or a farmer upcountry, who has never bothered to put on a mask😷, to part with sh62,000 ($17) for a vaccine!

@gavi @MinofHealthUG @GovUganda @WHO @CEPIvaccines @narendramodi This is what independent nations 🌐 are doing. Free #COVID19 vaccines.

• 🇬🇧 (pop 67 million) vaccinated 11 M
• 🇺🇸 (328 million) vaccinated 34 M
• 🇪🇺 (pop 446 million) vaccinated 14 M
• 🇺🇬 (pop 45 million) vaccinated 0 M
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@gavi @MinofHealthUG @GovUganda @WHO @CEPIvaccines @narendramodi ➡️Unroll @threadreaderapp

#Uganda
#Vaccines
#COVAX
#COVID19

@gavi @MinofHealthUG @GovUganda @WHO @CEPIvaccines @narendramodi ✳️ Coronavirus vaccine: How much it costs, who'll get it first and other FAQs

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#Vaccines
#CoronaVac
#Sinovac
#Sinopharm

@gavi @MinofHealthUG @GovUganda @WHO @CEPIvaccines @narendramodi JUST IN

✳️ CLARIFICATION ON THE COST OF #COVID19 VACCINES

I have been sent this statement, supposedly from MOH but dated January 7, 2021. It does not confirm any price, saying the #COVAX facility is yet to determine the rate at which Uganda will buy the COVID-19 vaccines.