COVID-19 Updates

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A new campaign has been launched to increase financing for Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to raise its capacity for securing essential diagnostics and medical supplies needed for COVID-19 response in Africa. The One by One; Target COVID-19 campaign, spearheaded by Africa-CDC, the …

Los Angeles, United States | AFP |  Parisians Carole de la Cheneliere and Olivier Merleau were all set for their once-in-a-lifetime road trip down America’s famous interstates — but then, the pandemic struck. This Friday, they were due to arrive in Los Angeles, from where the open road would have carried …

Kisoro, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Two people have been quarantined at Kisoro Primary Teachers College in Kisoro district after it emerged that they got into contact with a COVID-19 positive truck driver at Uganda-Rwanda border of Chanika last week.  Nick Muneza, the Assistant District Health Officer Kisoro, says that the …

Berlin, Germany | AFP |  On a sunny Sunday in April, 20 people were enjoying a barbecue in the city of Schwerin in northern Germany. The police promptly intervened, slapping them with a fine for breaking new social distancing rules to limit the spread of COVID-19. They were alerted to the …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The closest date that a COVID-19 vaccine can be ready is June 2021 according to scientists and researchers.   Over 100 vaccines are being developed globally in laboratories in the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe and even China. 76 of these are being followed by …

Tunis, Tunisia | AFP |  Amira Jamoussi, a doctor on the front line fighting the novel coronavirus in a hospital in Tunisia, is spending the Muslim holy month of Ramadan away from her family. “It’s been five weeks since I’ve held my children in my arms,” Jamoussi said, before putting on …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  A latest clinical trial in the United States shows that Remdesivir drug is effective in the treatment of the novel coronavirus. The experimental drug by the Gilead Sciences Inc has been under clinical trial treating COVID-19 patients for the last two weeks in the United …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Two contacts of an earlier confirmed case of a Burundian refugee tested positive to coronavirus disease on Monday bringing Uganda’s total cases to 81.  According to the Ministry of Health, the 24-year-old male Ugandan and 21-year-old Burundian National are under isolation at Rakai Hospital. They …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts at the Makerere University School of Public Health say there’s no longer need for the whole country to stay under total lockdown as a way of preventing the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Uganda has not had any cases of community transmitted infection …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has said it has so far traced and tested 14,000 people out of the 18,000 who came into the country from 7th to 22nd of March. Following the outbreak of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health announced that 18,000 people had …