Epidemics Tracker

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Security Minister Gen Elly Tumwine has praised security forces for the decisiveness with which they quelled what he called a pre-mediated riots across the country last week. Over 40 people are said to have died, many of them shot by security officers, after protests …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda and 12 other African countries have launched a new  clinical trial that aims to respond to the urgent need to identify treatments that can be used to treat mild and moderate cases of COVID-19 early and prevent spikes in hospitalization that could overwhelm fragile …

Soroti, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Ninety-three people have tested positive to COVID-19 in Teso Sub Region. This is after they were subjected to a mandatory test as a condition to attend President Yoweri Museveni’s campaign rallies in the region. President Museveni started his campaigns in the area on Saturday by …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is struggling to track recovered COVID-19 patients under the home-care treatment program. While the health ministry has records of COVID-19 patients admitted within the public and private healthcare system, it has very little or no information on the patients seeking treatment …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Final year students at Kyambogo University are living in fear after one student tested positive for Covid-19. The patient is a third-year student pursuing a Bachelor of Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) course. Last week, the student developed COVID-19 signs and she reported to the university …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Nature could prove to be man’s best ally in slowing down, or actually averting the devastation to humanity potentially posed that the coronavirus.  Researchers at the La Jolla Institute of Immunology in California have found that natural immunity triggered by COVID-19 infection could last longer than …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Oxford University says their vaccine can protect people from COVID-19, according to findings released. Interim findings published about the study show that the vaccine is 70 percent effective in stopping people from developing COVID-19 symptoms. The findings are based on trials that involved over 20,000 …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health has said that all individuals intending to travel out of the country should pay for  a covid-19 testing.  The certificates for the travellers must also indicate travel as the intended purpose of the test.  In a press statement issued on Monday …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has struck off Lancet Laboratories on the list of approved covid-19 testing facilities. The laboratory was one of the first privately accredited laboratories that were carrying out testing at 344,900 Shillings.  Many Ugandans viewed the fee as exorbitant compared to government’s …

Kyotera, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The re-opening of the Mental Health Unit to patients at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital has been delayed following the increasing number of covid-19 cases.  In May, Masaka Regional Referral gazetted the mental ward to serve as the treatment unit.   The more than 200 patients who …