President Yoweri Museveni, who is 77, received his booster dose against the coronavirus on Tuesday.
“My doctors, Dr. Diana Atwine and Dr. Magooba an army officer, have just given me a booster dose,” he said from his Rwakitura country home in Kiruhura district in western Uganda.
“According to my statement during the New Year speech, I told you that efforts we are going to rely on to open the economy were; full vaccination for people aged 18 years and above, who are about 22 million, but also booster doses for the 3.3 million people above the age of 50 years, a constituency were I very rightly fit.
“I am now 50+27 = 77 years,” said Museveni shortly after getting inoculated.
“We said that this group should get a booster dose. But also, the ones below 50 but with problems like diabetes, blood pleasure, cancers etc should get a booster dose.”
President Museveni receiving his first COVID-19 vaccine dose in March 2021
The President appealed to Ugandans to get fully vaccinanted to beat the virus as Uganda’s economy gets fully reopened.
“I really appeal to everybody to do the needful. If you belong to this group of 50+ years, get a booster dose. If [aged] 18 and above get vaccinated fully,” urged Uganda’s President.
“Dr. Atwine brought another clan of doses and said clan mixing is good. Now Atwine has said that for the booster to work well, get another clan. I was vaccinated two times with AstraZeneca, now I have got a Pfizer booster dose.
“That when you do that, you get more mobilization of immunity and resistance and against the virus for the body. Please get the two vaccines if you are 18 years and then the ones above 50 years or below 50 but with comorbidities get a booster,” rallied Museveni.
He said he has received reports that even with Omicron variant of the coronavirus, people who have been vaccinated two times quickly overcome it.
“Please this is not a joke. All must get up and be vaccinated.”
President Museveni receiving his second COVID-19 vaccine dose in June 2021
Museveni got his Pfizer booster dose almost ten months after his first COVID-19 dose to improve immunity following the outbreak of the rapidly-spreading Omicron variant.
Studies have recommended that after the first two doses, the priority/special groups, including people aged 50 years and above and those with comorbidities, can take a booster dose.
According to research, three COVID-19 vaccines are now authorized or approved for use to prevent COVID-19.
Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna (COVID-19 mRNA vaccines) are preferred and can be mixed. A three-dose course of AstraZeneca’s (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine is effective against the Omicron coronavirus variant.
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