Paris, France | AFP | UEFA will hold an Executive Committee meeting by videoconference next Thursday, April 23, European football’s governing body has confirmed, as it continues to look at ways of restarting the season in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. Before that, the heads of each of UEFA’s …

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 …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AFP | The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention plans to distribute a million COVID-19 test kits from next week to help the continent tackle a glaring shortfall in testing, its director, John Nkengasong, said Thursday. “There is a big gap on the continent on testing,” …

Paris, France | AFP | The OPEC oil cartel said Thursday that the world market for crude is undergoing an unprecedented jolt due to coronavirus mitigation measures that have decimated demand. “The oil market is currently undergoing a historic shock that is abrupt, extreme and at global scale,” said the group …

Washington, United States | AFP | President Donald Trump’s administration is urging an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it doesn’t rule out that it came from a laboratory researching bats in Wuhan, China. Beijing has said that the virus, which has killed more than 138,700 people worldwide, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The COVID-19 incident commander Atek Kagirita has condemned the Acholi leaders for blocking the evacuation of a COVID-19 patient to Gulu. On Wednesday night Acholi leaders led by Aruu County MP blocked an ambulance that was evacuating a cargo truck driver who tested positive …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The process of securing clearance to access health services in hospitals in Kabale has aroused complaints where mothers have opted to walk distances and avoid bureaucracies. In one of the measures to control the spread of coronavirus disease, the government advised expectant mothers and …

Kyotera, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farmers Kyotera district are demanding for a special security consideration to curb the rampant theft of vanilla in the area. Dozens of vanilla farmers in the sub-counties of Kasasa, Kakuuto, Nabisaga and Kabira are decrying the high rate at which they are losing farm …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Serena Hotel Kampala and Sheraton Kampala have sent staff home until further notice as coronavirus (COVID -19) travel restrictions bring hotel occupancy to zero. Notices seen from both hotels tell staff while they will receive pay for the months of March and April, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As a new measure adopted to further combat the spread of COVID-19 at Uganda’s borders, all truck drivers driving into Uganda are required to present themselves to the Ministry of Health officials for testing. On the 12th of April, 2020 a truck driver en route …