Tag Archives: COVID-19

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), on Monday warned of the “devastating outbreaks” caused by the Delta variant of COVID-19, saying that the new strain of the virus was infecting people “at a scorching pace.” “Last week marked the fourth consecutive week …

Marginalisation of the minority tribe keeps relief away Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Sylvia Kokunda, a young member from the Batwa minority community in southwestern Uganda has watched with frustration the recent debate on which groups of people in Uganda deserve to get the government cash relief during the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police commanders at Nateete police station are in trouble for allegedly protecting bars operating against directives during the COVID-19 lockdown. In March last year, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni closed all entertainment venues including bars in a bid to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The leisure …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In a bid to support the SafeBoda community that is being hit hard by COVID-19 lockdown, ride hailing app, SafeBoda has announced an initiative to provide food supplies to over 3,000 of its SafeBoda drivers, it said on July 12. This follows the presidential directive …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda will this month receive some 647,010 doses of Pfizer vaccine from the World Health Organization COVAX facility to boost the country’s protection against COVID-19. Emmanuel Ainebyoona, ministry of health spokesperson told Xinhua by telephone on Monday that the vaccines would mostly be used in …

Gulu district Covid-19 taskforce is seeking money to do mass sensitization to improve adherence to standard operating procedures and ensure high vaccine uptake Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu district taskforce is hunting for Shillings 314 million to combat the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Key among the interventions lined up …

  What Uganda has got wrong – and right In June, President Yoweri Museveni tightened restrictions in the country following a worrying rise in COVID-19 infections and deaths. The new stringent measures included a 42-day lockdown and restrictions on the movement of people. Public health specialist Gloria Seruwagi reveals some …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A number of health workers have allegedly received less money than what they expected in their risk allowances paid in arrears. The health workers deployed in COVID-19 Treatment Units-CTU had taken months without receiving their allowances. Last week, a number of health workers received the …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu University’s faculty of Bio-technology and Pharmaceutical Studies (PharmBiotec), needs financial assistance to produce large quantities of their Covid-19 herbal treatments. Three weeks ago, a group of more than ten scientists at the University started packing four different concoctions which they said they have been …

  British High Commissioner to Uganda, Kate Airey, shares her views with The Independent’s Ronald Musoke in an email interview  You arrived in Uganda in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. Still, I would like to imagine that you have tried to move around the country over the last seven …