Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The United Nations on Tuesday launched a new campaign to counter, by fostering personal behavior change, the growing threat of misinformation online, particularly with regard to COVID-19. The campaign, called Pause, asks digital users to take the time to think about what they are about to …
Read More »Education authorities in Serere district want gov’t to partially reopen schools
Serere, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Education authorities in Serere district have asked the government to partially reopen schools starting with areas that do not have confirmed Covid-19 cases. The proposal follows an assessment of the recent interventions by the government to help children learn at home. Government has been …
Read More »4.1 million girls face genital mutilation due to COVID-19 – UNPF Report
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 4.1 million girls around the world will undergo Female Genital Mutilation- FGM during the lockdown because they are out of school due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is according to the State of World Population report released on Tuesday by the United …
Read More »11 Ugandans who returned from Afghanistan test positive for COVID-19
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eleven Ugandans who recently returned from Afghanistan have tested positive for COVID-19 according to results released from the health ministry today. All the 11 returnees were under quarantine at the time of testing. The returnees are part of 19 cases that tested positive from …
Read More »DP advise government to declare a state of emergency
Kampala, Uganda | Nansubuga Prossy | The Democratic Party (DP) has asked government to declare a state of emergency and postpone the 2021 elections as a preventive measure for Covid-19 in Uganda. While addressing the press at the party headquarters, the DP Press secretary, Mr.Fred Mwesigwa said the election process is …
Read More »Arua hospital to send samples to Adjumani hospital labaratory
Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Arua Hospital has started sending samples to Adjumani hospital laboratory for testing. Since the outbreak of covid-19 in March samples collected from suspects and contacts in the West Nile region were sent to the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe. Two weeks ago, a mobile …
Read More »Muntu speaks out on presidential bid ahead of ANT nominations
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Alliance for National transformation-ANT, Uganda’s youngest political party is scheduled to conduct nominations for its presidential candidates on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Uganda Radio Network spoke to the party founder Rtd. Maj. Gen. Gregory Mugisha Muntu on Monday in an exclusive …
Read More »COVID-19: 11 Ugandans back from Afghanistan test positive
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & PROSSY NANSUBUGA | Uganda’s COVID-19 confirmed cases have jumped to 889 , with 11 of them from a group of 91 that returned in the past week from Afghanistan. The returnees from Afghanistan are all under quarantine. Results from 2,170 samples tested on 29 …
Read More »Health ministry explains variance in COVID-19 active patient numbers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has explained that the extra COVID-19 active cases that were initially not added to the national tally, are truck drivers who opted to seek treatment in Uganda, as opposed to going back to their countries. According to a statement issued by …
Read More »COVID-19 pandemic not even close to being over- WHO
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nearly six months after the new coronavirus first emerged, the COVID-19 pandemic is “not even close to being over”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned. Speaking on the eve of the grim milestone, Dr Tedros called for …
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