Tag Archives: COVID-19

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Student tour guides on Kazinga Channel in Kasese District are decrying the limited business activities following a ban on study tours due to the covid-19 pandemic.     Kazinga Channel and Katwe Landing site are key geographical study destinations for students both in primary, secondary and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda might go through the second wave of COVID-19 without functional Intensive Care Units. ICUs are used to handle severe COVID-19 cases with breathing difficulties due to organ failure, one of the side effects of the disease. To better handle COVID-19 cases, the health ministry announced …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Ministry of Health -MOH has said the Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital will not re-open to the general public this month, as earlier planned.  Dr. Diana Atwine, the Permanent Secretary of MOH, told Uganda Radio Network (URN) on Monday that the ministry has asked the …

London, UK |  XINHUA |  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s trip to India next week has been canceled, Downing Street confirmed Monday. “In the light of the current coronavirus situation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not be able to travel to India next week,” the British and Indian governments said …

New Delhi, India |  XINHUA |  India’s COVID-19 tally surpassed the 15-million mark, reaching 15,061,919, on Monday, revealed the latest data by the federal health ministry. There was an increase of 273,810 COVID-19 cases during the past 24 hours. This is the third consecutive day when the country witnessed a …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Gulu District Local Government has reported poor local revenue collection as the 2020/2021 financial year nears its end.  Simon Peter Ocen, the Gulu District Senior Finance Officer, told URN in an interview that they have only collected Shillings 560 million out of the projected Shillings …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The ministry of health has been forced to continuously revise the COVID-19 vaccination priority groups due to the low uptake of the vaccine. According to health ministry officials, they have been forced to change the original plan of vaccination to increase uptake of the vaccine. Originally, …

Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited through the contractor for the 600MW Karuma Hydropower Dam – Sinohydro Corporation Limited has boosted health service delivery in Masindi district after commissioning Masindi Barracks Health Centre IV. Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The health centre, whose construction started in September 2019, cost US$1.7million, …

  Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Education authorities in Moroto district are unable to trace 324 primary six pupils who failed to turn up for studies in March 2021. Joseph Aleper, the Moroto District Inspector of Schools, says that they registered 986 pupils across the district before the COVID-19 lockdown …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Researchers at the University of Oxford have reported that the risk of the rare blood clotting known as cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) following COVID-19 infection is around 100 times greater than normal, several times higher than it is after vaccination or following influenza. The study …