MAKERERE | VACCINATION | STUDENTS 

KAMPALA - Makerere University Hospital is set to vaccinate university students who are 18 years and above.

The director of the facility, Dr JK Byamugisha, said that following guidelines concerning vaccination of students released by the Ministry of Health dated September 17, 2021, the hospital is now vaccinating students.

Byamugisha said the vaccination process will run, Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 2:00pm at the hospital.

“We encourage students that are far from the University Hospital to go to the nearest COVID-19 vaccination centre for the same,” Byamugisha said.

President Yoweri Museveni directed the reopening of places of worship, nearly three months after he closed them during the second Covid-induced lockdown that he imposed on June 18.

Schools, which have been closed for a similar period, will begin opening their doors with tertiary institutions on November 1, while other students will resume classes next January.

The partial lifting, Museveni noted, will be in strict adherence to standard operating procedures (SOPs), among them, regular washing of hands with soap or sanitising with alcohol-based solutions, keeping two-metre social distance and mandatory wearing of masks. 

Churches and mosques can immediately resume operations, but the number of worshippers at any one time should not exceed 200.

There has been sustained vocal demands by religious leaders, who argued that the faithful are more likely to respect SOPs at church or mosques than free-wheeling shoppers or vendors would at markets and malls opened at the end of July.

Some religious leaders had filed a case against the government over the continued closure of worship places in a country in which, according to Uganda Bureau of Statistics up to 93 per cent of citizens profess one or other religions.

Museveni directed that there will be no congregation for worship after curfew hours, which is 7:00pm to 5.30am.

Guests at weddings, confirmation and other ceremonies as well as mourners at funerals can now number 200, up from 20.