COVID-19 Updates

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The impact of COVID-19 and its containment measures has shifted the landscape of how trade can be conducted, a survey of several Ugandan businesses shows. Interviews with several ICT and leaders in trade shows that businesses today are seizing every opportunity provided by digital technology …

Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The joint Parliamentary Committees of Public Accounts and the Local Government have given Soroti city authorities up to Friday to submit a comprehensive report on the disbursement of Covid-19 relief funds. The legislators were left in shock at Soroti city hall on Monday after discovering …

Budaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of councilors in Budaka district have asked the police to investigate allegations that Budaka health center IV issued them with fake Covid-19 test results. The councilors include Paul Kungu of Kakule sub county, Jude Kalyebi of Budaka town council and Tademeri sub-county, Hellen …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University management has suspended a planned tuition increment for two years. Earlier this month, Guild President Ivan Ssempijja asked the university management to halt the 15% tuition increment policy in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic constraints. The student leaders also demanded …

Why keeping them closed is dangerous Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Reagan Okello, 18, had just started his Form 3 when President Yoweri Museveni suddenly closed schools when the COVID-19 disease entered the country in March, last year. It has been a tough 17 months since for Okello who …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala City traders under the Kampala Arcades Advocacy forum have partnered with Mild May testing laboratory to carry out massive COVID-19 screening at a subsidized cost. This is meant to control the spread of COVID-19 among the business community. Suleiman Mpagi, the forum’s organizing …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Scientists sitting on the COVID-19 National Task Force are starting a study to establish the likely effects of mixing different vaccines amidst a rush to acquire as many vaccines as possible to vaccinate the 22 million targeted. Ugandans So far, in addition to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government plans to extend Covid-19 vaccination centres to schools.  This was revealed  Friday by the Minister of Education and Sports Janet Kataha Museveni as Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) released A Level examination results. Last week the minister made a call to all …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health (MOH) has lifted the travel ban on travelers from India. Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng told a news conference on Friday that the country has now been placed under category 2, down from category 1 countries, implying that travellers …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government will procure 18 million doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine. The county is expected to spend around 351 Billion Shillings on the vaccines with each dose costing 19,498 shillings. For a complete dose, the government will spend 38,996 Shillings. This is 10,000 shillings cheaper …