Tag Archives: COVID-19

  Absa has reacted swiftly to the COVID-19 pandemic by designing, offering and implementing smart solutions and offering significant financial respite during these times. COMMENT | Vimal Kumar | When a crisis of the magnitude of Covid-19 strikes, it is our role as a responsible lender to put forward various immediate and …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum district COVID-19 taskforce is dismayed over the delay in release of COVID-19 test results. The Kitgum District Health Officer Dr. Alex Olwedo made the disclosure on Friday evening while releasing routine COVID-19 test sample results that were taken from contacts and suspects three …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Each stranded Ugandan in South Africa is paying $913 US Dollars, (about shillings 3.4 million) to travel to Uganda on a Uganda Airlines chartered repatriation flight cleared to arrive next week. Deo Nyanzi, the marketing manager of the national airline says they will operate …

Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Taxi drivers in Busia municipality have protested against the continued lockdown within the district. The continued lockdown is one of the measures taken by government to reduce the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Busia is among the border districts still under lockdown. The drivers …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Several couples cancelled their weddings during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, even as the concept of scientific weddings took shape among Ugandan communities.   The concept started with a ban on public gatherings in March 2020 and a suggestion by president Yoweri Museveni that people can abandon …

Entebbe, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Two private vessels, MV Vanessa and Nathalie, have resumed operations from Entebbe to Kalangala after being grounded for three months due to travel restrictions imposed to control the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).      The private vessels, run by Nyanza Evergreen Waterways, both docked at …

Busia, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Busia District has run out of face masks to distribute to residents.  The border district received 305,000 face masks targeting citizens from six years and above, as part of a declaration of the government calling for the mandatory wearing of masks to safeguard communities against …

  Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Institutional racism contributes to why African-Americans have been hit harder than white groups amid the COVID-19 pandemic, White House health advisor Anthony Fauci has said. “Obviously the African-American community has suffered from racism for a very, very long period of time,” said Fauci, director …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Iganga district have arrested Francis Muganga, the head of people power’s legal team in Busoga region for leading a protest which attracted crowds contrary to the presidential directives aimed at controlling the spread of coronavirus disease COVID-19. The president barred public meetings …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The continued lockdown in Tororo district due to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a delay in the commissioning of the Tororo central market. According to municipal officials, by March this year, the Contractor Young Jin Construction Inc. Company, a Korean firm had finalized works …