Tag Archives: COVID-19

How to ensure poor people in cities can still get it | ASTRID R.N HAAS | More than half of all African countries have now imposed lockdown measures aimed at flattening the curve of new COVID-19 infections. The reason for taking such drastic measures while infection rates are still relatively …

Shareholders will now not be able to vote on resolutions such as dividend payments, changes to directorships, approval of accounts within stipulated timeframe Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Uganda’s listed firms had big plans for their annual shareholders meeting (AGM) starting next month, giving opportunities to their owners and …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Gulu district COVID-19 taskforce has appealed for more food relief to aid hundreds of starving families in the area.   Gulu district Chairman Martin Ojara Mapenduzi says that they have been overwhelmed with the demands for food from helpless households, whose livelihood was disrupted by …

  COMMENT | Jonas Mbabazi | In Uganda, as of April 24, 2020, there were 75 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 46 of these have recovered and none has died. The shocks from the coronavirus pandemic have been sudden and unprecedented. Within a few months, many businesses, government offices, markets, public and …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Nile Breweries Limited-Uganda says its contribution to the national tax purse could fall significantly as the coronavirus lockdown disrupts alcohol transportation and sales. Nile Breweries Limited paid 394 billion Shillings in taxes in the 2018/19 financial year, one of the highest pay by a single …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Gulu District COVID -19 Taskforce has banned stopovers for all cargo truck drivers in the district.   The ban was issued by Gulu Resident District Commissioner Maj. Santos Okot Lapolo as the head of the District COVID-19 Taskforce, amid growing uncertainty on the health status …

Masaka, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Security authorities in Masaka district have pardoned 25 people who had been arrested for defying COVID-19 control measures.  The pardoned individuals were arrested in a Joint Security operation commanded by Masaka District Police Commander Bosco Bakashaba, to enforce COVID-19 directives issued by President Museveni.  Najib …

Kisoro, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  A driver who transported a COVID-19 positive truck driver from Chanika border in Kisoro district to Kabale Regional Referral Hospital has been quarantined after exposure. The truck driver was transported to Kabale Regional Referral Hospital for admission on Friday in a Toyota Land Cruiser registration …

wakiso, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Residents of Kira municipality in Wakiso district are receiving chicken and eggs on top of the relief food to households whose livelihood was disrupted by measures to control the spread of COVID-19.   According to the initial arrangement, the government intended to distribute six kilograms of …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The National COVID-19 Taskforce has agreed that all trucks entering Uganda will have only one person on board for the next four weeks in a move to control the movement and exposure of Ugandans to foreign truck drivers.  The meeting which was convened yesterday decided …