Anirban Mitra, a molecular biologist, explains why dead bodies can’t spread COVID-19 ANALYSIS | By Agencies | Here is a short, analogy-based summary of how the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19 disease infects the body and why funerals —if done with prescribed guidelines — are nothing to be alarmed about. …

  Washington, US | XINHUA | Jen Smith, a homeowner in an affluent suburb outside Washington DC, is not happy about U.S. President Joe Biden’s plan for neighborhoods like hers. “There’s a low-income development a couple of miles down the road,” the manager of a small company, in her late …

Accra, Ghana | XINHUA | The leadership of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is promoting a Pan-African payment system to facilitate intra-African trade, a top official said. Wamkele Mene, the Secretary-General of AfCFTA told Xinhua in an interview that the Pan-African Payments and Settlement System (PAPSS) would be …

Italy 🇮🇹 1 Wales  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 0 Rome, Italy | THE INDEPENDENT | Matteo Pessina scored the only goal as Italy beat Wales in Rome, but both teams could celebrate safe passage through to the last 16. Pessina’s first-half goal was enough to ensure Italy beat Wales 1-0 to finish Group A with a …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A record Sh56million has been raised in one week, as efforts to get Tororo Broadcasting Network (TBN) on air by August hit a new momentum. After last week’s virtual fundraising graced by HRH Moses Steven Owor The Kwar Adhola, a promise by Geresom Okecho-Ochwo, …

Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Luwero district have demanded that the criteria used to allocate funds in the Parish Development Model programme be revised. Effective next month, the government will roll out the Parish Development model across the 10,694 parishes in Uganda. According to the national budget, …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Arua district have expressed concern over reports that the management of Arua Regional Referral hospital is handing over bodies of deceased persons to their relatives before carrying out tests to ascertain the cause of death. The leaders say handing over dead bodies …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Private Sector Foundation Uganda -PSFU has launched an emergency drive to mobilise its members to lend gas cylinders to health facilities. The umbrella body of private business organizations says this is aimed at supplementing Government efforts to treat the critically ill currently in …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Drivers have opted for alternative routes in the areas of Masese, Bugembe and Mpumudde to easily access Jinja city’s central business district. While updating the country on the status of covid19 on Friday, president Yoweri Museveni suspended all public transport means for a period …

  Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Only 20 people will attend the burial of the Obudhingya Bwa Bwamba-OBB queen mother Rhoda Nsoliya Kwamara. Nsoliya was a wife to late Kawamara Yeremiya one of the three Rwenzururu movement liberators and the mother of the reigning king of OBB, Lt Col …