Kabaka Mutebi has been vaccinated against Covid 19 along the Nabagereka Sylvia Nagginda and other palace staff.
They received the jabs on Friday at Kireka palace.
The vaccination of the royals and their staff come as government scientists said a second wave of covid19 was already in the country.
After the vaccination on Friday, Nabagereka Nagginda told reporters people should go for the vaccine to assist them build immunity.
“Covid19 is a major killer disease. We should all go for the jabs to gain immunity,” Nagginda said.
Dr. Simon Luzige led the team of medical team that vaccinated the family of the Kabaka and his servants.
In the meantime, the commander of the covid19 task force Col. Dr Kyobe says that they concluded the country was in a second wave after followt the epidemic trends using both direct and indirect means including surveys.
“In direct means we follow positivity rates principally among the alert cases: detection of clusters and unpacking transmission and potential secondary transmission within these clusters, we keep a close eye on the new cases reported daily and weekly,” Col Kyobe said in a statement sent to Newsday.
Using genomic surveillance, he said, scientists are actively following the potential emergence or importantation of variant strains on which “we are keeping an eye on what’s happening in the region”.
“Indirectly we follow any changes in national hospitalization rates, all-cause mortality in all the facilities, we also follow weekly trends of severe acute respiratory syndrome and influenza like illness using all these data sources to triangulate for for us to make projections” he said.
On the resurgence plan, Kyobe explained that at all times they plan emphatically to be ahead of the situation.
“What we know is that if the resurgence is to happen, then will most likely be through clusters and our aim is to rapidly respond to these clusters and ensure they don’t coalesce to big unmanageable clusters” he said
Astra zenac fearsTh
There have been concerns about the safety of Astra zenac with claims it causes blood clots and global nations have barred it’s use.
Government received a million doses that were donated by Covax, a world bank funded program and the government of India.
The vaccine being used in Uganda Astra Zenac. It has been criticized and banned by some nations for allegedly causing blood clots but the World health Organisation insists that the vaccine is safe.
In London on four weeks ago, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said the available evidence does not suggest that blood clots in veins1 (venous thromboembolism) are caused by the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca.
“This follows a detailed review of report cases as well as data from hospital admissions and GP records. This has been confirmed by the Government’s independent advisory group, the Commission on Human Medicines, whose expert scientists and clinicians have also reviewed the available data,” MHRA said in a statement.
It added that a further detailed review into five UK reports of a very rare and specific type of blood clot in the cerebral veins (sinus vein thrombosis) occurring together with lowered platelets (thrombocytopenia) is ongoing.
“This has been reported in less than 1 in a million people vaccinated so far in the UK and can also occur naturally – a causal association with the vaccine has not been established,” MHRA said.
MHRA advised that the benefits of being vaccinated continue to outweigh any risks and that the public should continue to get their vaccine when invited to do so.
“The European Medicines Agency has concluded their review2 and stated that the benefits of vaccination still outweigh the risks despite a possible link to rare cerebral blood clots with low blood platelets,” MHR said.
It added there were no confirmed issues related to any batch of vaccine used across Europe, or the rest of the world.
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