Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL), Umeme and Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) have apologized for a power blackout that delayed President Yoweri Musevehi’s speech on COVID-19 today. “We regret the national power blackout occasioned by a huge floating water weed island …
Read More »LIVE: Uganda lock-down extended for 21 days
Uganda COVID-19 history 🔹 April 14 – ……. – TOTAL 54 🔸 April 13 – 0 new cases – TOTAL 54 ↘ April 13 – 3 Discharged 🔹 April 12 – 1 new case – TOTAL 54 ↘ April 11 – 4 Discharged 🔸 April 9-11 – 0 new – …
Read More »Bolt goes viral with ‘social distancing’ Olympic photo
Washington, United States | AFP | Retired track star Usain Bolt showed he’s still a few steps ahead when he posted an AFP picture of him outstripping his rivals at the Beijing Olympics with the cheeky caption: “social distancing”. Bolt’s post, featuring a picture by AFP photographer Nicolas Asfouri of …
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Lock-down Diary: Day 12, Easter COMMENT | Primah Kwagala | It is Easter Sunday and there was no church or the hullaballoo of Kampalans running up and about in their Sunday best to fill churches. Not many people have made a fuss about not being able to do that on social …
Read More »Absa Bank Uganda introduces COVID-19 customer payment relief solutions
NEW PACKAGE: ABSA Uganda customers to be offered payment holidays of up to 6 months to help mitigate effects of COVID-19 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As Uganda and the rest of the world confront the public health, financial and economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, Absa Bank Uganda …
Read More »‘I am dead’ – the story of Uganda’s Patient Zero
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | ” I am the bread earner. I am everything in my family. I am dead.” Those were the first words Patient Zero said after Ministry of Health officials told him that tests had confirmed he was positive for COVID-19. The Director of Entebbe Hospital …
Read More »Uganda discharges former COVID-19 patients
DR HENRY MWEBESA: The patients we discharged were on hydroxychloroquine and erythromycin. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Prime Miniser Dr Ruhakana Rugunda has today discharged three patients who were positive for COVID-19. The three, handed certificates indicating good health, were one of 53 of Uganda’s confirmed cases of corona-virus …
Read More »Nsambya Hospital’s Doctor Ddumba passes on
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr Edward Ddumba, the Medical Director of St Francis Nsambya Hospital has died. Cause of death which occurred early Saturday, has not yet been revealed. In 2018, he was diagnosed with Hepatocellular Carcinoma which is cancer that affects the liver and was successfully operated …
Read More »Apple and Google team up on virus ‘contact tracing’ by smartphone
San Francisco, United States | AFP | Google and Apple unveiled a joint initiative Friday to develop a coronavirus smartphone “contact tracing” tool that could potentially alert people when they have crossed paths with an infected person. The move brings together the largest mobile operating systems in an effort to …
Read More »Despite virus, Pentagon warns enemies: don’t test us
Washington, United States | AFP | With an aircraft carrier forced into port and staff at bases handling nuclear missiles hit by COVID-19, the US military wants rivals to understand: don’t test us, we have not been weakened. Statement after statement from the Pentagon has sought to deliver that …
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