Kampala, Uganda | Khisa Isaac | Coca Cola Company’s philanthropic arm, Coca-Cola Foundation, in partnership with Care and Assistance for Forced Migrants (CAFOMI) is extending support to 833 plastic waste collectors countywide with Shs110million worth of relief items to cushion them of financial burden amidst the coronavirus pandemic. The company, which …
Read More »Drop in COVID-19 cases is the calm before impending second wave-MOH
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The health ministry has warned that the current drop in COVID-19 numbers is not good news. Health ministry officials say the drop in numbers is just the calm before an impending second wave. As of today, the health ministry has recorded 40,243 cases of the …
Read More »STUDY: Adherence to Covid-19 SOPs low at border points
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Key populations operating at borders points to Uganda say that they can’t adhere to the Ministry of Health’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of maintaining a physical distance as protection against COVID-19. According to the World Health Organization, in the wake of COVID-19 everyone is encouraged …
Read More »Seven inmates at Busesa prison test positive for Covid-19
Victims have been taken to Kirinya prisons Covid-19 treatment facility for further management Bugweri, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Bugweri district Covid-19 taskforce chairperson Richard Gulume who is also the Resident District Commissioner says that seven out of the 189 inmates in Busesa prisons have tested positive for Covid-19. While …
Read More »Tanzania’s Finance Minister discharged from Mkapa hospital
Dodoma, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | Tanzanian Finance Minister Philip Mpango is back home, after being discharged from Benjamin Mkapa Hospital in Dodoma where he had been admitted for the past two weeks. “God bless you,” he repeatedly told the doctors and nurses at Mkapa Hospital where he held a …
Read More »Ghana becomes first country to receive COVAX vaccine
Ghana receives world’s first doses of free Covax vaccines Accra, Ghana | Xinhua | The government of Ghana Wednesday took the delivery of 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India, becoming the first country to receive the COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility. “We are …
Read More »Hundreds in Malaba and Mutukula doubt presence of Covid-19 in Uganda
Malaba, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Almost a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, hundreds of people in the border towns of Mutukula and Malaba still don’t believe that the viral respiratory disease is real even as it has so far claimed 333 people and affected 40,221 others. Uganda registered its first …
Read More »Bus and taxi operators in Kitgum on the spot for cheating commuters
Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Travelers in Kitgum district have accused bus and taxi operators of charging them exorbitantly and violating the COVID-19 standard operating procedures. The transport fares doubled after the Ministry of health directed transporters to carry half of their licensed capacity to ensure social distancing to minimize …
Read More »Police commanders directed to intensify night curfew Operations
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Police Force-UPF has directed area commanders to intensify operations to crackdown on all night curfew violators. The directives which were issued by the Police Operations Director, Assistant Inspector General of Police Edward Ochom to all district and division police commanders took effect on Tuesday. …
Read More »Uganda’s Economy: No celebrations yet
Can government respond to private sector needs amidst pressures related to COVID-19? Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | KK Foods, exporters of fresh foods and vegetables, enjoyed market opportunities in Europe, US and Canada until Covid-19 restrictions struck in March last year. Export volumes dropped from 63 tonnes to 40 …
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