Tag Archives: COVID-19

A jump in cost of sales, administrative expenses largely to blame for the bad performance Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Shareholders of Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Limited will again wait to receive dividends after their company reporting Shs16bn net loss for the first six months ended Sept.30 compared to …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The home-based isolation and care for COVID -19 positive patients have failed in Gulu following poor adherence to the Standard Operating Procedures.    Under home care, people who test positive for the disease but are not asymptomatic or do not have any other underlying conditions …

Accra, Ghana | XINHUA |    The 42nd ordinary general assembly of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) will be held via videoconference due to COVID-19, CAF’s Emergency Committee announced Tuesday. A statement issued by CAF communication director Alexandre Siewe said the meeting, initially scheduled to be held in Addis Ababa, …

Soroti, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Ninety-three people have tested positive to COVID-19 in Teso Sub Region. This is after they were subjected to a mandatory test as a condition to attend President Yoweri Museveni’s campaign rallies in the region. President Museveni started his campaigns in the area on Saturday by …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A consortium of 30 civil society organizations fighting gender-based violence have asked the government to include violence against women in the COVID-19 response plans. The Domestic Violence Act Coalition is advocating for the safety and well-being of women during the annual global 16 days of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is struggling to track recovered COVID-19 patients under the home-care treatment program. While the health ministry has records of COVID-19 patients admitted within the public and private healthcare system, it has very little or no information on the patients seeking treatment …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Final year students at Kyambogo University are living in fear after one student tested positive for Covid-19. The patient is a third-year student pursuing a Bachelor of Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) course. Last week, the student developed COVID-19 signs and she reported to the university …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has launched a week-long campaign for popularizing the use of face masks. Dubbed AfricaMaskWeek, the campaign in which different media platforms will be used to showcase how proper face mask use ought to be worn …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Nature could prove to be man’s best ally in slowing down, or actually averting the devastation to humanity potentially posed that the coronavirus.  Researchers at the La Jolla Institute of Immunology in California have found that natural immunity triggered by COVID-19 infection could last longer than …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Oxford University says their vaccine can protect people from COVID-19, according to findings released. Interim findings published about the study show that the vaccine is 70 percent effective in stopping people from developing COVID-19 symptoms. The findings are based on trials that involved over 20,000 …