Tag Archives: COVID-19

Bunyangabu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Students in Bunyangabu district have failed to access learning materials being distributed by the Ministry of Education. The materials were distributed by the Ministry of Education and Sports to maintain learning even as schools remain closed as a result of coronavirus disease – COVID-19. Moses …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu Regional Referral Hospital has increased its capacity to admit more COVID-19 patients. This follows the renovation of the Multi-drug-resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) ward at the hospital that has improved the capacity to 100. The hospital initially had space for only 14 cases. Emmanuel Ainebyoona, …

  Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | African governments will have to go slow on lifting some of the lockdown measures they instituted to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, senior officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and prevention have said. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni will deliver the State of the Nation Address to Parliament on Thursday, 04 June 2020 as planned, but at Kololo, not the usual venue of Serena. “Due to the COVID-19 situation and for observance of the social distancing measures, the function …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the number of COVID-19 deaths in Africa and the East African community continues to rise, Uganda has not recorded any deaths. In the East African community only, Uganda and Rwanda have not reported any deaths. The highest deaths in the region have been recorded …

Lamwo, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Sergeant Joseph Otema, the Officer in Charge of Madi Opei Police Post in Lamwo district is locked up for violating the ban on public transport as part of the COVID-19 preventive measures. He was locked up together with five others at Madi Opei Police Post …

New York, United States | AFP |  Pandemic confinement has electronic dance music titan David Guetta looking inward, and he said he’s emerging “extremely inspired” ahead of a New York benefit set for this weekend. A key EDM architect who’s heavily influenced the pop of recent decades, the 52-year-old Grammy-winning French …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Finance Minister Matia Kasaija has said that the government does not have a provision for any fiscal stimulus for businesses that have been affected by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several economists and players within the private sector have been calling upon the …

Thoreau, United States | AFP |  Amanda Larson pulls up at a water station a few miles from her home in the Navajo Nation and her three children get to work filling up large bottles lying on the bed of her pickup truck. The 66 gallons will be used by her …

 Masaka, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Security agencies have engaged in running battles with traders in Masaka Municipality over a  decision to close all general merchandise shops despite President Museveni’s clearance. Several traders had reopened their shops in response to a move by President Yoweri Museveni to ease COVID-19 restrictions with …