London, United Kingdom | AFP |  Bookmakers at an “emergency summit” this month will be trying to find a way to “survive the slump” triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. Racing and football, bookmakers’ two key sources of revenue, have come to a standstill across Europe since mid-March with betting shops also …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The World Health Organisation is reviewing the impact of a decision by the United States of America, to withdraw funding to the UN health agency, pending a review of how it responded to the initial outbreak of Coronavirus Disease in China. Describing the decision as …

Gulu, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT | A truck driver, who was heading to South Sudan and was confirmed to be COVID-19 positive, has been transferred to Kampala from Kamdini.   Ministry of Health officials picked him from Kamdini, and decided to take him to Kampala and not near by Gulu Regional Referral Hospital …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has directed the Minister of Health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng to explain the delayed payment of 300 frontline health personnel deployed to fight coronavirus Disease. Kadaga’s directive followed a query by Buhweju County MP Francis Mwijukye who cited the …

Mpigi, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Mpigi district COVID-19 taskforce has been boosted with a donation of three-tones of maize flour, thanks to Aqua World, a company owned by Pastor Samuel Kakande. The food will be distributed to persons whose livelihood was affected by measures put in place by the government …

Los Angeles, United States | AFP |  Swift and strict containment measures in California appear to have succeeded in reducing hospital overcrowding and mass deaths from coronavirus, according to health experts in the country’s most populous state. California, one of the first states struck by the deadly disease, has been under …

Washington, United States | AFP |  President Donald Trump is hankering for a return of live sports action, but US league supremos are taking a cautious approach to competition amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We have to get our sports back,” Trump said Tuesday. “I’m tired of watching baseball games that are …

Kapelebyong, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Julius Osia, a resident of Aleles village, Akoromit Sub County in Kapelebyong district has voluntarily surrendered an illegal firearm to Maj. Gen. Joseph Arocha, member of the UPDF General Court Martial.  Osia explained that he exchanged three cows with Karimojong warriors in 2014 for the …

Rome, Italy | AFP |  Doctors, nurses and healthcare workers have become the unwitting heroes of the coronavirus pandemic, winning applause from balconies and streets around the world. From Yaounde to Rome to New York, the pandemic has infected more than 1.9 million people and claimed 118,000 lives. Hospital workers are …

Washington, United States | AFP |  Can an app contain the pandemic? Interest is growing in smartphone technology as a potential key to ending lockdowns and reopening economies around the world. Digital “contact tracing” would allow mobile systems to log instances where people have been in proximity with an infected person …