On Tuesday, 2,500 frontline health workers in Uganda received Ebola vaccination in the Adjumani District (northwest sub-region of the West Nile, bordering the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and South Sudan), said Henry Lulu, the district's health officer as cited by the media.
"We have received 400 doses of vaccines for Adjumani district as we launched this exercise today. More doses of vaccines are being brought to cover all the six districts in the West Nile sub-region," said Lulu as quoted by the media.
The health officer informed that the exercise was initiated involving frontline health workers and will be extended to the public later on.
The World Health Organization (WHO) provided Uganda with 1,200 doses of Ebola trial vaccines in December of last year. The aim of the clinical trial was to combat the Sudan strain of the virus that hit the country in September.
At the time, the deadly virus infected at least 142 people, among whom it claimed the lives of 56. The Sudan strain is less prevalent in Africa in general than the Zaire variant. After 42 days without any new cases reported, on January 11, Uganda officially declared the end of the Ebola outbreak.