COVID-19 Updates

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) has detected the Indian COVID-19 variant in Kampala. According to officials from the Ministry of Health, the variant also referred to as -B.1.617 was detected from travelers returning from Indian. The variant was picked up after the travelers …

✳ Two COVID-19 tests before flight to Japan ✳ Daily tests ✳ Only follow activities outlined in activity plan ✳ Social-distance with outsiders, 1 meter ✳ Use Games vehicles only ✳ Eat only in locations where COVID-19 countermeasures in place ✳ All other Games participants tested daily for three days …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Health Ministry has discontinued the use of Vitamin C in the management of COVID-19 citing the high toxic levels associated with the drug. Vitamin C, alias ascorbic acid, is a chewable or dissolvable tablet or intravenous drug that supplements the uptake of nutrients in the …

EU’s executive body says AstraZeneca has failed to honour its obligations toward the 27-member bloc. Brussels, Belgium | Xinhua | The European Union (EU) has brought pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to court over its failure to respect the commitment to deliver COVID-19 vaccine doses to its member states, said a European Commission …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kitgum district COVID-19 task force is considering mass mobilization to increase the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in the district. William Komakech, the Kitgum Resident District Commissioner says that this is in response to the low uptake of the vaccines by frontline workers, who were initially …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Prisons Services has less than 100 COVID-19 vaccine doses left amidst very high demand by the personnel and prison communities to get vaccinated. Frank Baine, public relations officer of Uganda prisons says the security agency received 10,000 doses and over 9,900 have been consumed. This …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil society Organizations-CSOs and representatives from the private sector demand that the government review the stimulus package instituted during the Covid-19 pandemic. From April 2020, the government put in place several packages with an objective of supporting the different businesses that were hit hard by …

Chancellor Prof Charles Olweny hails record number of graduands at Mbarara University Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Students and staff of Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) have been challenged to resolve conflicts intellectually, and avoid strikes. “There has been a lot of unrest at public universities. There have …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education is worried as over 99% of all the teachers registered across the country to receive the Covid-19 vaccine are still hesitant to receive the AstraZeneca jabs giving excuses like long distances to the vaccination centres. As different frontline workers who were identified …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda might go through the second wave of COVID-19 without functional Intensive Care Units. ICUs are used to handle severe COVID-19 cases with breathing difficulties due to organ failure, one of the side effects of the disease. To better handle COVID-19 cases, the health ministry announced …