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Uganda airlines ready to resume regional flights Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Nine airlines are all set to resume business as soon as Uganda’s main airport at Entebbe resumes. These are Uganda Airlines, KLM, Turkish Airlines, Emirates, Brussels Airlines, Qatar Airways, Kenya Airways, Air Tanzania and Ethiopian Airlines. The Uganda …

Beijing, China | XINHUA | Wealthy countries, including the United States, Britain and Japan, have purchased more than half of the expected COVID-19 vaccine supply, global anti-poverty charitable organization Oxfam has said. Rich countries have bought up to 51 percent of the promised doses of leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates, while …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts in Uganda have expressed concern that physiotherapists have been left out in the line of care for patients battling COVID-19. Dr Annet Grace Nakalyango, a physiotherapist based at Mulago National Referral Hospital says that because Uganda has been recording mainly mild cases of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Masaka regional referral hospital has admitted three health workers who tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Dr. Nathan Onyach, the hospital director has confirmed their admission saying they were working at the ordinary outpatient department where they got infected. He noted that some health …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At the time of our meeting, Linda Nsababera was on her way to meet a company director who had closed and asked her staff to work from home at the height of the lockdown instituted by the Ministry of Health to halt further spread …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has said Kampala has over 30 percent of the total 6,287 confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) that have been reported by the country. According to figures from the health ministry, Kampala followed by Amuru, Buikwe and Moroto account for …

INEVITABLE COVID DEATHS: Here’s why government thinks it is ready Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Case. Fatality. Rate. That is a measure of how many people die when struck by a disease. And it is one of the most important numbers the Ministry of Health is now looking at …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has started his address on the country’s next actions to counter the COVID-19 pandemic. He is expected to outline Uganda’s plan to re-open the education sector, the airports and borders. He will also stress that Uganda’s focus will be on the individuals …

UPDATE 🔺 September 19th – new COVID-19 cases 423 🔺 Total confirmed cases 6,017. 🔹 Total Deaths: 63 🔸Total Recoveries: 2,581 🔹Samples from Points of Entry tested today: 306 🔸Samples from community and contacts: 2,014 🔹Samples tested today: 2,320 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has today announced 423 new …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan scientists are planning to start a laboratory manufacturing of targeted antibodies that can kill SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19. Dr Bruce Kirenga, a researcher and executive director at the Makerere University Lung Institute told URN in an interview that …