City Tycoon Hamis kiggundu has pledged to purchase 15000 COVID19 doses of Astrazeneca worth 530 million. shillings to support Ugandans as the country in shortage of COVID19 dozes.
Hamis revealed this in the press conference held at Uganda media Centre stating the challenge of increasing cases of Covid19 Uganda is experiencing currently and the scarcity of COVID19 vaccine doses.
He also noted that part of the vaccine will directly be given to his employees and Tenants and the rest of other Ugandans.
The support has been welcomed by The Kampala Resident District Commissioner Haji Huddu Hussein and lssa Ssekito the spokesperson of Kampala City Traders Association and applauded Hamis kiggundu for his generosity who in the same way called upon Ugandans to critically implement the Covid19 standard operating procedures warning people the virus is deadly.
However KACITA and Kampala Capital City Authority have agreed to put in place different public address systems in different places of the city center in order to increase on the awareness campaign against the high spread of covid19.