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The study aimed at investigating the factors influencing the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines amongpeople in Ishaka, Bushenyi District in Uganda. Understanding the factors that influenced theuptake of COVID-19 vaccines is of great help in creating strategies to increase vaccine coveragein order to rapidly bring the pandemic to an end. A quantitative cross section study approachwas conducted, sample size was 317 participants. Data was collected using an intervieweradministeredquestionnaire and the data analyzed using SPPS. The analyzed data was thenpresented in form of tables and graphs. According to the study majority of the participants67.8% were males and minority 31.2% were females. Most of them 34.1% aged between 31-40years with 52.5% not married. Most 40.7% had attained secondary, 35.6% tertiary and 23.7%primary level. Majority 74.1% were Christians, 22.7% Muslim while minorities 3.2% were pagans.Most participants 31.5%were business men, 25.9% working in the private sector, 19.2% students,and 14.2% civil servants while 6%were unemployed. 166. 80.1% live in an urban area. Of theparticipants earn less than one million a month, 25.2% no monthly salary, 9.5% earn betweenone million and two million while minority 4.7% were earning more than two million. It wasfound that 99.7% participants knew about covid-19 while only 0.3% did not know. It was foundthat 74.4% of the participants had not been vaccinated while 25.9% had been vaccinated. Thosewho were not vaccinated, only 27.7% were willing to get vaccinated and 72.3% were not willingto get vaccinated. The COVID-19 vaccination rate among people in Ishaka Bushenyi was lowdespite most people having the knowledge about Covid-19 vaccine and good attitude towardscovid-19 vaccine. There uptake of the vaccine remained low with most people fearing the sideeffects of the vaccine.