COVID-19 Updates

The 49 new cases as follows: 🔺37 alerts ✳ 17 from Kampala ✳ 2 from Wakiso ✳14 from Namisindwa ✳1 from Kiryandongo ✳ 2 from Mbarara & Lamwo 🔺6 contacts to previously confirmed cases: ✳ 1 from Bushenyi ✳ 5 from Kampala 🔺 4 returnees: ✳ 3 from Saudi Arabia …

Beijing, China | XINHUA | As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage across the world, Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of leading medical journal The Lancet, asked a provocative question with his newly-published book titled “The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again.” Such a question reverberates …

Geneva, Switzerland | XINHUA | A senior expert of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that it is currently in conversation with Russia to get additional information about the COVID-19 vaccine that Russia will start production soon. Dr. Bruce Aylward, senior adviser to WHO’s director-general, told a press conference …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng is irked by the high fees charged by private laboratories to carry out the coronavirus (COVID-19) tests. The Ministry accredited three private laboratories to conduct tests for the virus. But just one of them; Lancet Laboratories …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda registered the highest number of new cases since foreign truck drivers were excluded from the country’s figures, with the Ministry of Health announcing 32 COVID-19 positives from tests done on August 13. The previous highest was 31 cases, last week on August …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health (MOH) has urged politicians to respect Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) that include wearing facemasks consistently, using sanitizers, and respecting physical distancing even in the heat of the 2021 campaigns. The warning by Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng comes after another …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that six months after first sounding the international alarm over COVID-19, it is now intensely focused on shepherding global vaccine candidates through the necessary trials. Among them, the Access to COVID19  Tools (ACT) Accelerator, launched in April, has …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health experts in Uganda have predicted an increase in the need for lung rehabilitation in the aftermath of coronavirus disease. Dr Bruce Kirenga, the director Uganda Lung Institute says that while Uganda has largely had mild cases of the respiratory disease, many of those that …

UPDATE 🔺 August 12th – new COVID-19 cases 21 🔺 Total confirmed cases 1,353. 🔺 8 new cases are from Malaba point of entry 🔺 12 new cases are contacts and community alerts. 🔹 Total Deaths: 11 🔸Total Recoveries: 1,141 🔹Samples from Points of Entry tested today:2,871 🔸Samples from community and contacts: 1,147 🔹Samples tested …

    Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pioneer Hospital and its Annex at Ediofe in Arua district have reopened to the public 17 days after they were closed after one of their patients tested positive for Covid19. The private health facilities were closed on July 26th, 2020 and all …