Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Schools will pick up from where they stopped with the first term of learning after the 30-day school lockdown, according to the Ministry of Education and sports. The school term was prematurely cut short on March 19,2020 as a precautionary measure to forestall the spread of …
Read More »Relief food excites city residents, mothers question absence of milk
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Bwaise, a suburb of Kampala are upbeat after receiving relief food from the government as a way of mitigating the challenges caused by the Coronavirus (COVID -19) lockdown. The distribution had delayed a bit as leaders including the minister in charge of Kampala …
Read More »Lack of basic needs pushing Kasese residents to town despite COVID-19 lockdown
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Locals in Kasese Municipality have defied a presidential directive to stay at home as a measure to control the possible spread of coronavirus disease -COVID-19. The stay at home campaign has been emphasized by President Yoweri Museveni as a strategy to tame crowds, in a …
Read More »Virus patients in Spain get five-star hotel quarantine
Barcelona, Spain | AFP | An ambulance driver wearing a white protective gown enters a Barcelona hotel and announces the arrival of three new “customers” — a trio of coronavirus patients discharged from hospital into luxury quarantine. “Good morning! How are you? My name is Enrique Aranda and I am probably …
Read More »Smartphone vs virus, is privacy always going to be the loser?
Paris, France | AFP | In Europe, officials, doctors and engineers are looking at how smartphones could be enlisted in the war against the spread of the new coronavirus. One obvious attraction for health officials is the possibility of using smartphones to find out with whom someone diagnosed with COVID-19 has …
Read More »Video app Zoom rockets to fame, with some hiccups, amid pandemic
San Francisco, United States | AFP | What does British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have in common with virtual happy hour celebrants and thousands of students around the world? All use the Zoom videoconferencing application to get together while staying apart during the deadly coronavirus pandemic. But amid its newfound fame, …
Read More »UEFA demand leaves Scottish football clubs in the lurch
London, United Kingdom | AFP | UEFA’s ultimatum to national leagues that a failure to complete the football season could lead to exclusion from European competition has left the continent’s less wealthy leagues, like Scotland, in limbo. Scottish clubs were due to meet by video-conference on Friday with the possibility of …
Read More »Trump fires intelligence official who had key impeachment role
Washington, United States | AFP | President Donald Trump announced Friday he was firing a senior intelligence official who had a central role in the complaint last August that sparked the impeachment trial of the US leader. In a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Trump said he had lost confidence …
Read More »South Africa rolls out mobile testing in virus lockdown
Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | South African public healthcare workers dispersed into the buzzing streets of Johannesburg’s Yeoville neighbourhood on Friday as Africa’s worst virus-hit country rolled out mass door-to-door testing for COVID-19. Armed with screening questionnaires and testing kits, medics and volunteers set up their testing station on the front …
Read More »COVID-19; Acholi paramount chief stuck in London
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Acholi Paramount Chief Rwot David Onen Acana II is currently stuck in the United Kingdom following a worldwide lockdown over the coronavirus Pandemic. Acana who heads the Ker Kwaro Acholi Chiefdom, flew to London for personal business in March. He was also scheduled to …
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