COVID-19 Updates

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Manzi Tumubweine, the former Rukiga County Member of Parliament and Minister of State for Privatization has died. Tumubweine succumbed to Covid-19 on Saturday night at around 10:00 PM at Case Clinic in Kampala where he has been admitted. His death was confirmed by the …

Nairobi, Kenya | XINHUA | The East African Community (EAC), a regional economic bloc, is planning to develop a COVID-19 economic recovery plan to help the region rebuild from the negative effect of the pandemic.Juvenal Ndimurirwo, director of finance for the EAC Secretariat, told a virtual meeting Friday that the …

Kamuli, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A traffic police officer has been knocked dead along the Kamuli-Buyende road. Enoch Ndingidyeye, 30 was knocked on Friday by a sugarcane truck which he attempted to stop. The truck registration number UAM 405H was ferrying passengers from the Buyende district to areas in …

Covid-19 testing centres register increase in infections in learners Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The situation at Makerere Hospital is being played out across the country after students returned abruptly for holidays when the second wave of COVID-19 hit the country. Dr Josephat Byamugisha, Executive Director Makerere hospital -one …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Staff shortage has overstretched care delivery at the Covid-19 treatment unit in Gulu Regional Referral Hospital. During the first lockdown to contain the virus, up to 38 staff drawn from the different departments were trained by the Ministry of Health backed by the World Health …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The former Bunya South Member of Parliament, Jowali K. Kyeyago has succumbed to the coronavirus (COVID-19). Kyeyago, also a former delegate in the Assembly of the Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) died yesterday afternoon at the Jinja based Nile International Hospital. Kyeyago who had …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Greater Masaka region is in crisis after the only oxygen manufacturing plant at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital broke down. The crisis has caused panic among health authorities not only at the regional referral but also in other hospitals and health units that depend on the …

Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kikuube district COVID-19 taskforce has suspended water transport across Lake Albert following the surging cases of COVID-19 in the district and the country at large. Kikuube shares a porous border point with the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC which is also battling the same pandemic. …

New York, U.S. | Xinhua | More people have died from COVID-19 this year than in 2020, despite progress of vaccination in the rich world, reported The Wall Street Journal on Friday. “It took less than six months for the globe to record more than 1.88 million COVID-19 deaths this year,” …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Taxi operators along the Kampala-Jinja highway and Gayaza-Bugerere road have shifted their operations to areas near the district boundaries. This follows the ban on inter-district travel that was instituted by President Museveni on Sunday following a surge in the Covid-19 cases. To stop taxis crossing …