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President Yoweri Museveni said this would happen regardless of how many people were vaccinated.
Well under 10% of Uganda’s population have been jabbed, though Mr Museveni said there would be enough doses by the end of the year to quadruple numbers.
He said that if anything went wrong with the uptake, the public would bear moral responsibility.
Many teachers have left for other jobs to make ends meet, and some say they won’t return.
“We expect a low turn up because the children say they are not coming back,” secondary school teacher Bosco Wantate told dpa, adding “they are tired of studying. They are doing other things.”
“The situation is dramatic: most students have been out of school for a total of two years; especially children under the age of eight and students in remote areas have had little access to education,” explained Lilian Ssengooba, programme development officer for the aid organization SOS Children’s Villages.
According to SOS Children’s Villages, schools in Uganda were partially or fully closed for 83 weeks during the coronavirus pandemic.
Uganda has recorded nearly 150,000 cases since the pandemic began, of which over 3,300 proved fatal. However, as in many African countries, it’s likely that the number of cases in Uganda has been highly under reported.
Australian Associated Press