Epidemics Tracker

    Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Water and Sewerage Corporation is struggling to collect payments from water bills that accumulated before and during COVID 19 lockdown. The utility company halted disconnections during the lockdown to maintain a constant flow of water at a time when Ugandans were …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 73% of students in higher institutions of learning have found the new learning methods employed during the lockdown harder than conventional studying methods. Several institutions switched from the four-walled classrooms and adopted remote collaboration tools and learning management systems after the …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu hospital is seeking help from UNICEF and World Vision to help build a centre to cater for children of COVID-19 patients. Six children are housed at the COVID-19 treatment centre at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital where their mothers are receiving treatment after testing positive …

Luanda, Angola | XINHUA |  Angola on Thursday suspended charging school fees in all public, co-financed and private education institutions during a period of national emergency due to COVID-19. The policy, which applies to all subsystems of education and vocational training, will be in force until classes are resumed in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Relatively wealthy people received more support, in cash and in-kind, compared to those who needed aid during the COVID-19 lockdown. These were the findings of a survey undertaken by Sauti za Wananchi at Twaweza Uganda between May and June 2020 the time when the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ugandan government is in talks with the Imperial London College to take part in its COVID-19 vaccine trials. The Imperial London College began human trials of their vaccine in June 2020 with a small dose of the vaccine being administered to a volunteer …

We need to seize the ‘handwashing with soap’ moment COMMENT | Dennis Alioni | Uganda’s handwashing rate shot up to an unprecedented 86% in the last three months, surpassing the country’s 2020 National Development Plan II target of 50% and the 2019 average of 36%. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry has launched the long awaited COVID-19 mobile laboratories. The mobile labs were supposed to begin work some months back when they were donated but this was all in vain. They couldn’t be launched due to lack of the Polymerase Chain Reaction-PCR machine …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The iconic Bob Marley song One Love is to be re-released to support children whose lives have been upset by COVID-19. This is part of a fundraising initiative by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to save children from the devastating effects of COVID-19. Originally recorded …

🔺  23 new cases 🔺 Total confirmed cases 1000 🔹 Total Deaths: 00 🔸Total Recoveries: 908 🔹 Total of samples tested : 219,627 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has today confirmed 23 new COVID-19 cases from the 3,316 samples tested bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to …