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Daily Monitor
A large crowd of people gathered at Kanungu Health Centre IV, a remote outpost in South-western Uganda, at the crack of dawn a fortnight ago. Word had spread across villages that it was the last day the facility was offering Covid-19 vaccinations. Why would 200 people crowd a health centre to receive either the first or second jab on the last day of a supposedly long-running vaccination campaign? The answer depended on who one talked to. The assistant Kanungu District health officer, Mr Kato Besisira, explained that whilst 46 percent of the district population had been inoculated, which in his…