Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni says he is still "looking at which of the vaccines" to go for, days after his government kicked off mass vaccination against Covid-19 using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Presidents across the continent have been publicly receiving the jabs to counter scepticism about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. In a televised address on Sunday night, President Museveni said he had not yet been vaccinated because he is "quite careful and well protected by the system". President Museveni on Sunday said the local newspaper must apologise "in big letters on the front page" or "he will go for them". It received 864,000 vaccine doses from the Covax scheme early this month and expects an additional supply of 2,688,000 doses in June.

Source: The Star March 15, 2021 07:07 UTC