Tag Archives: COVID-19

Wakiso, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Authorities at Wakiso district education department have resumed inspection of schools several months since they were closed in preparation for learners to return for studies, the district education officer Fredrick Kiyingi Kinobe has said. He says that district inspectors of schools will by Monday 14th …

Why it favours Museveni Kampala, Uganda | GEOFFREY SSENOGA | Uganda is going to conduct its first digital and mass media campaigns ahead of its 2021 general elections. This comes as the country contemplates holding a “scientific election” wherein social distancing guidelines will be observed. On June 16, the Uganda …

SCHOOLS RE-OPENING: The tough decisions to be made Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Aug. 26, news reports emerged that GEMS Cambridge International School in Kampala was set to close by December. The Uganda Radio Network, a syndicated news provider, called it “yet another non-medical causality of the COVID-19 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu Regional Referral Hospital on Saturday discreetly discharged 30 patients who have recovered from coronavirus disease – COVID-19. Earlier this week, 27 others were discharged bringing to 275 cumulative recoveries from the facility since May. The individuals who included Gulu based journalists were flagged off …

Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An elderly COVID-19 patient has died from Moroto Regional Referral Hospital. The hospital’s director Dr Ben Watmon confirmed the death of an 87-year-old resident of Loputuk sub county in Moroto district on Saturday evening. He said the man reported to Moroto Hospital on September 10, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has today recorded it’s highest number of daily Coronavirus infections with 326 people testing positive from tests conducted on Friday. Results released today by the health ministry show that 326 new cases were confirmed bringing the total number of cases reported in the …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   Greece’s European partners are already offering assistance to the country to cope with the crisis on Lesbos island after the destruction of the Moria refugee migrant camp by a fire this week. They are preparing to agree a coherent, single migration and asylum policy to …

Luweero, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Voters in the NRM primaries held today continued to defy the Standard Operating Procedures which were set by the Ministry of Health to Control the Spread of COVID-19.  The Standard Procedures include maintaining a social distance of at least two metres between persons, using hand …

Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | Uganda Tourism Board has today (Sept.11) launched a domestic tourism campaign dubbed ‘Take on the Pearl’ as a mechanism to revamp sector growth that has been battered by COVID-19 lockdown. “The pandemic has created an opportunity for us to look inwards and therefore travel our …

Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Moroto government prison has been closed to new inmates after 30 inmates tested positive to Covid-19 on Thursday. All 30 have been evacuated to Jinja isolation centre for treatment while over 200 other inmates have been placed under quarantine. The 30 left Moroto government …