Tag Archives: COVID-19

Buliisa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Authorities in Buliisa district are considering relocating Butiaba Health Center III to Butiaba Sub county Headquarters. The Health facility was in October last year submerged by floods rising from the Lake Albert water levels.  As a result, health services at the health facility were  then …

Mpigi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Mpigi district  department is facing a big challenge to convince its people to accept being vaccinated against COVID-19. The district deputy health officer Dr. Margret Nannozi says that the exercise will take a longer time as majority of the people have a negative attitude towards …

Wakiso , Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Wakiso leaders are bitter, that no senior leader at the ministry of health could make time to attend the launch of the National Sanitation Week in the very district where practically they are based, during this era of Covid-19 where sanitation is the key …

Hong Kong, China | THE INDEPENDENT |  Asia-Pacific countries are still facing growing cases of the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday as India reported 26,291 new infections, the highest of this year, taking the total to 11,385,339. According to the official data, the death toll mounted to 158,725 as 118 COVID-19 patients …

 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | THE INDEPENDENT | The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said that nine African countries have reported more than 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU) Commission, said on Sunday that South Africa is …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Ministry of Health will not halt the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, saying no severe effects have been reported.  This follows the suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine in several countries including the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on grounds that some of the people …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) Examinations enter their third week, the body charged with organizing them has hailed several pregnant candidates for overcoming the odds to write their O levels. The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) in a statement today on social media, …

Kasese, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  |  There is a poor turn up of learners at several schools in Muhokya sub-county Kasese District two weeks after the government reopened schools for semi candidates. Government allowed the semi candidates to report back after spending more than a year at home because of the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni says he is still undecided on which, of the COVID-19 vaccines, he will use to protect himself against coronavirus. He disclosed this in a nationwide televised address from State House on Sunday evening. Museveni, who is 75 years of age, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An audit report by the Auditor General John Muwanga has qualified the accounts of the Ministry of Health to several irregularities in expenditure of money mainly meant for the Covid-19 pandemic response. A qualified opinion means a statement issued by an auditor accompanying an entity’s …