Kyotera, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry is yet to find one of the Covid-19 positive cases in Kyotera district. The positive case is a Ugandan male whose sample was picked along the road in Mutukula border town during the ongoing community survey. Atek Kagirita, the COVID-19 incident …
Read More »Africa could have 44 million COVID-19 infections this year- WHO
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The African continent will have 44 million infections and about 19,000 deaths if countries fail to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease-COVID-19. This is according to a study carried out by the World Health Organisation regional office for Africa and published in the British …
Read More »Another truck driver tests positive, Uganda now has 101 cases
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The number of COVID-19 confirmed cases has surpassed the 100-mark after a sample of a Tanzanian truck driver tested positive. The case is a 32-year-old driver who entered the country via the Mutukula border. His sample was among 3,091 samples that were tested at the …
Read More »Truck drivers giving false information at entry points – Health Ministry
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health and other agencies are facing problems tracking truck drivers who have tested positive to coronavirus disease- COVID-19. According to officials on the National COVID-19 Task Force, it has become increasingly hard to trace drivers and their contacts because as they …
Read More »Lacor hospital suspected COVID-19 deaths test negative for virus
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Test results from the Uganda Virus Research Institute show that two deaths that occured at Lacor Hospital in Gulu were not caused by COVID-19 as was suspected by health officials at the hospital. The two deaths that occured on Sunday were of a 59-year-old Kenyan truck …
Read More »Acholi leaders criticized for blocking evacuation of COVID-19 patient
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 …
Read More »Ministry of health to spray travellers with disinfectants
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is to start spraying all travellers who enter the country. This is a new measure that the health ministry has come up within a bid to stop the spread of COVID 19 into the country. According to the health ministry, all …
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