Tag Archives: COVID-19

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum municipal council has returned 12.4 billion shillings unspent funds for the 2019/2020 financial year to the treasury. Out of the 12.4 billion shillings, 441 million shillings was supposed to facilitate payment of staff salaries, 84.5 million shillings for pension, 335.9 million was meant for …

Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sub-county leaders in Pader district have rejected 7.9 million shillings allocated for Covid-19 activities. Twelve sub-counties in the district were allocated the money in April this year by the district task-force to facilitate COVID-19 related activities. The money is part of the 165 million shillings …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Ugandans have been advised to use the country’s first COVID-19 death as an eye-opener that the disease is real and lethal. The call was made moments after the Ministry of Health confirmed the first death due to coronavirus disease in the country.  The deceased was …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |  Kenya’s total number of COVID-19 cases rose to 15,601 after 796 infections, the highest ever recorded in a single day, were confirmed on Thursday, Kenya’s Ministry of Health said. Mercy Mwangangi, Chief Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of Health said the latest infections are from …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The immediate introduction of a temporary basic income for the world’s poorest people could slow the current surge in COVID-19 cases by enabling nearly 3 billion people to stay at home, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report released Thursday. The report, Temporary …

✳ 1,079 Ugandan cases ✳ 971 Ugandan recoveries ✳ 1 Ugandan death Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has registered its first COVID-19 death four months after the epidemic broke out in the country. The victim is a 34-year-old woman who died at Joy Hospice Center in Mbale City …

Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | As COVID-19 infections rise on the African continent, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of the havoc the pandemic is wreaking on the continent’s health workforce. Ten thousand health workers in 40 African countries are said to be battling COVID-19 at the moment …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has today confirmed Uganda’s first COVID-19 death. The deceased is a 34 year old Ugandan female, resident of Namisindwa district who presented with COVID like signs and symptoms: fever,dry cough,headache and difficulty in breathing. The postmortem samples from the deceased were confirmed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is seeking 465 Billion shillings for COVID-19 intervention. According to the Ministry Permanent Secretary Diana Atwine, 240 Billion shillings is required for test kits and laboratory consumables, 100 billion for personal protective equipment, 72 billion for oxygen equipment and consumables and …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health is under pressure to clear the return of 300 Ugandans currently stuck in Saudi Arabia. The 300 are mostly domestic workers who entered the country illegally and were in deportation centers, while others do not have funds to survive in the …