Uganda Government Refutes WSJ Report That President Yoweri Museveni Received Chinese COVID Vaccination Last Year

Ugandan Health Minister June Aceng responded to a recent Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday that alleged President Yoweri Museveni and his inner circle all received preferential access to Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccinations last year, when a shipment of 4,000 doses was brought into the country for the exclusive use of Chinese nationals in central Uganda. 

“[The Chinese business community] wanted it for themselves, we said strictly limit it to yourselves, we do not want it to spread in the population. Uganda imports vaccines that are World Health Organisation prescribed, assessed for safety…, that is the vaccine we bring for the population and we have applied for it through Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation,” Aceng said in response to the WSJ story.

The vaccines in question were brought in last December specifically for the Chinese expatriate community at the Liao Shen Industrial Park in Kapeeka. Zhang Hao, the park’s managing director, said none of the jabs were used by any local residents, including the President.

Ugandan officials said that once Chinese vaccines receive WHO certification, they plan to import a mix of donated and purchased jabs from Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturers. (DAILY MONITOR)

Other Chinese Vaccine Headlines From Across the Global South:

  • AFRICA: Senegal launched its COVID-19 vaccination campaign Tuesday in the capital, Dakar, where the health minister received the first jab of China’s Sinopharm vaccine. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
  • MENA: Egypt received a second shipment carrying 300,000 doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine at Cairo Airport earlier on Tuesday as a gift from Beijing, the Egyptian Ministry of Health announced. (AHRAM ONLINE)
  • AMERICAS: Bolivia is awaiting the arrival of half a million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine, which has also been authorized in Argentina as it expects to receive a million doses this week. (LA PRENSA LATINA)
  • ASIA: 200,000 doses of Chinese-made vaccines landed today at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport. Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha soon after became the first person in the country to be inoculated with a Sinovac jab. (PATTAYA MAIL)
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