Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | Letshego Holdings Ltd, under its subsidiary Letshego Uganda has Friday (July 24) donated a consignment of goods worth Shs 4million to Kyotera town as added effort towards the district’s efforts in managing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Giles Aijukwe, the CEO for Letshego said …
Read More »Health workers decry hostility by COVID-19 patients in Gulu
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health workers in Gulu Regional Referral Hospital treatment unit have decried hostility by coronavirus (COVID-19) patients. Over 35 health staff are deployed at both the treatment unit and institutional quarantine centre at Gulu College of Health Sciences. The say some patients have been missing COVID-19 …
Read More »Pader sub county leaders reject UGX 7 million Covid-19 funds
Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sub-county leaders in Pader district have rejected 7.9 million shillings allocated for Covid-19 activities. Twelve sub-counties in the district were allocated the money in April this year by the district task-force to facilitate COVID-19 related activities. The money is part of the 165 million shillings …
Read More »Namisindwa death opens COVID-19 reality for Uganda -Health experts
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans have been advised to use the country’s first COVID-19 death as an eye-opener that the disease is real and lethal. The call was made moments after the Ministry of Health confirmed the first death due to coronavirus disease in the country. The deceased was …
Read More »Kenya records highest daily spike in COVID-19 cases as tally passes 15,000
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Kenya’s total number of COVID-19 cases rose to 15,601 after 796 infections, the highest ever recorded in a single day, were confirmed on Thursday, Kenya’s Ministry of Health said. Mercy Mwangangi, Chief Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of Health said the latest infections are from …
Read More »Multiple coronavirus vaccine doses necessary to protect world from coronavirus
Washington, US | XINHUA | People could need multiple vaccine doses to immunize themselves against the coronavirus and deploying a vaccine will require a global effort, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on Wednesday. “None of the vaccines at this point appear like they’ll work with a single dose,” Gates told …
Read More »UNDP calls for temporary basic income for world’s poorest people to slow COVID-19 surge
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The immediate introduction of a temporary basic income for the world’s poorest people could slow the current surge in COVID-19 cases by enabling nearly 3 billion people to stay at home, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report released Thursday. The report, Temporary …
Read More »Arua Covid-19 taskforce concerned about influx of foreigners
Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Arua district COVID-19 task force members have expressed concern about the continued entry of South Sudanese and Congolese nationals into the district. According to the members, since the ban of public transport was lifted two weeks ago, many Congolese and South Sudan nationals have …
Read More »DETAILS: Uganda registers first COVID-19 death, in Mbale
✳ 1,079 Ugandan cases ✳ 971 Ugandan recoveries ✳ 1 Ugandan death Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has registered its first COVID-19 death four months after the epidemic broke out in the country. The victim is a 34-year-old woman who died at Joy Hospice Center in Mbale City …
Read More »COVID-19 hits African health workers hard, 10,000 infected
Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | As COVID-19 infections rise on the African continent, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of the havoc the pandemic is wreaking on the continent’s health workforce. Ten thousand health workers in 40 African countries are said to be battling COVID-19 at the moment …
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