Tag Archives: COVID-19

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The East African Community integration project will emerge bruised but push ahead when the coronavirus pandemic is finally controlled despite contradictions at the moment pitting one partner state over the other, watchers have said. This comes after several bust-ups among the states, the latest being …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday cautioned Kenya against relaxing measures aimed at containing the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO said in a statement issued in Nairobi that the decline in the number of total confirmed symptomatic and asymptomatic cases in the last three weeks is …

Scientists around the world are already battling superbugs worse that COVID-19 | PROF. DAVID W GRAHAM AND PROF. PETER COLLIGNON | For many years, people believed antibiotic resistance in bacteria was primarily driven by imprudent use of antibiotics in clinical and veterinary settings. But growing evidence suggests that environmental factors …

Kampala,  Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Countries that are opening their economies must be serious about suppressing COVID-19  infections, to save the world from a disaster that could arise from opening up without a plan, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.  To control transmission, the who chief  …

Kampala,  Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Members of Parliament has disagreed with a move by the government to start charging for COVOD-19 tests effective today, September 1.   The Ministry of Health indicated last week that truck drivers, people in need of knowing their COVID-19 status, government and public …

Kalangala,  Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Wearing a face mask at Kalangala Islands spontaneously show that you are a stranger. Here, life is normal with seemingly no threat of Coronavirus Disease-COVID-19, among the locals.   A mask is considered a luxury for those in food markets, trading centres, and on the streets, …

Kampala,  Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Saliva samples have similar sensitivity in the detection of SARS – COV- 2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease-COVID-19 just like the currently widely used nasal swabs, a new study suggests.   The study, conducted by professors at Yale School of Public Health involved 70 COVID-19 …

Kaabong,  Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Construction of the first secondary school in Ik County, Kaabong district is complete. The school is expected to open as a Day and Boarding facility when the government reopens educational institutions after the COVID-19 lockdown.  The school, located in Kamion Sub County, 14 kilometers from …

Mukono,  Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | More than 60 per cent of developments undertaken in Mukono during the first five months of the COVID-19 lockdown were illegal. This is according to a report from the social services committee of the municipality.   Most of the said illegal developments have taken place in …

Iganga,  Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Incumbent Member of Parliament Kigulu South MP Andrew Kaluya has been arrested after clashes between his supporters and those of the former area MP Milton Muwuma. According to Kaluya’s political assistant Sarah Nalubanga, they had been doing door-to-door campaigns in Bukaye parish on Sunday …