COVID-19 Updates

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Gulu District COVID-19 Taskforce is using sign language experts to sensitize persons with hearing impairment in the district. This comes after the district leaders representing persons living with disabilities complained about excluding the deaf during the sensitization on COVID -19. Charles Arum, one of the …

London, United Kingdom | AFP |  With conferences cancelled and revenues hit because of a lack of rent from student accommodation, Britain’s universities are reeling from the global coronavirus pandemic. Schools have already lost millions of pounds thanks to enforced closures under lockdown, and things could get worse still. “British universities …

Budapest, Hungary | AFP |  Lilla Ilona Szeleczki’s terminally ill mother, a 79-year-old with chronic pneumonia and a kidney tumour, twice tested negative for the new coronavirus in a Budapest hospital so she was sent home. She died within a week. “My mother suffered for six days at home, without appropriate medical …

  Kigali, Rwanda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rwanda has announced the partial opening of its economy for some services to resume. While hotels, public and private business will resume activities on May 4, churches , bars, gyms and recreational centers will remain closed. Schools will also remain closed until September 2020. …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health has undertaken to put up a stationed laboratory at the Uganda-Tanzania border of Mutukula to speed up the process of testing people for the novel Coronavirus. Doctor Diana Atwine, the Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary on Thursday led a team of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga says that the recent statements from the Judiciary and the Executive concerning the  10 billion Shilling COVID-19  allocation to Parliament is an indication of a direct attack on the Legislature. Her statements follow a High court order directing all …

#April30 #Uganda #Covid19 🔸 2 new cases (truck drivers) ✳ 31,350 tested ✳ 83 confirmed cases ✳ 52 recoveries ✳ 17 active cases ✳ 0 deaths SOURCE MOH Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in Uganda has risen to 83 after two more people tested …

Washington, United States | AFP | The US intelligence community said Thursday it had concluded that the novel coronavirus that has swept the globe originated in China but was not man-made or engineered. “The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to US policymakers and those responding to the …

Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | Absa Bank Uganda Limited has donated four mobile isolation EpiTents units valued at Shs 100 million to the Ministry of health to support the emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The donation was handed over by the bank’s top bank officials to the Ministry of …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan scientists are still puzzled about the few COVID-19 cases reported in the country. Uganda has the lowest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the East African block. Rwanda and Kenya have 212 and 374 confirmed cases respectively. Tanzania has 306 cases while Uganda …