COVID-19 Updates

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital is currently constrained by limited space for the high number of patients with coronavirus disease-COVID-19. The hospital with a total capacity of 200 beds has 153 patients and 15 suspects. 7 of the patients are in the Intensive Care Unit-ICU. The …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s battle against Covid-19 gets more complicated as the deadly virus is harvesting the very people at the forefront of fighting it–the doctors. The 192 doctors already hit by the virus represent 4% of the five thousand Ugandans who have so far tested positive which …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jinja Regional Referral Hospital has temporarily closed its emergency unit following the death of two male COVID-19 patients at the facility. Although the facility was disinfected on Monday evening and Tuesday morning, patients and their attendants started fleeing for fear of contracting Covid-19. As a …

Johannesburg, South Africa | XINHUA | African countries that respond with innovative ways and make structural changes to their economies will recover fast, said global risk and strategic consulting firm Control Risks on Tuesday. Barnaby Fletcher, associate director of Control Risks said this while launching the 2020 Africa Risk-Reward Index …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The first batch of 100 Ugandans who were stuck in Rwanda because of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions returned to Uganda on Tuesday. The group was flagged off by the Charge d’Affairs of the Ugandans Embassy in Rwanda’s capital Kigali, Ms Anne Katusiime. They travelled in …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum District Covid-19 taskforce is stuck with 24 Covid-19 patients after they were turned away by Gulu Regional Referral Hospital treatment center because of space constraints.  William Komakech, the Kitgum Resident District Commissioner who also doubles as the Covid-19 task-Force chairperson told URN in an …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The surveillance and case management personnel for the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Gulu is stuck with over 30 patients in the community after the treatment centre ran out of space for new admissions. The government expanded the Tuberculosis ward at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital …

Masaka, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Masaka regional referral hospital has announced their first patient to succumb to the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The deceased is a 56-year-old male police officer attached to Lwengo police station. Masaka Regional Referral Hospital Director Dr. Nathan Onyachi announced the sad news on Monday. According to Dr. …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | As the number of COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the country, over 92 children have been infected with COVID-19 in Uganda according to the ministry of health. This is about 2 percent of the of cases in the country which are nearing 5,000. The …

Wakiso, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Wakiso district authorities have singled out workplaces as the epicentre of Covid-19 transmission.  The District Health Officer, Dr. Mathias Lugoloobi, says most of the Covid19 positive cases registered in the district are from police, prisons, banks, markets, shops and land-related offices. He attributes the low …