Tag Archives: COVID19

Moroto, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Covid19 patient who escaped from isolation at Moroto Regional Referral Hospital has been traced and handed over to Kenyan authorities. The 42-year-old patient tested positive for Covid19 in Amudat day after entering Uganda from Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. She was admitted at Moroto Regional Referral …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Several people have been bounced by security at Namugongo Martyr’s shrines, where they had turned up to join a special mass organised to commemorate the Annual Martyrs day Celebration.  The annual celebration is in remembrance of 45 young Christian converts who were brutally murdered between …

MEASURES CONFIRMED ✳ June 4 – Resumption of public transport ✳ June 4 – Shopping malls to open ✳ Candidate class schools reopening plan postponed by a month ✳ Decision on Churches, Mosques delayed ✳ Decision on sports delayed Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has delayed a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda is likely to lose $1.6 billion in expected revenue from tourism as a result of COVID-19 and most of the annual $1.3bn expected in remittances from the diaspora. He also said that the “lock-down cannot and should not continue indefinitely. …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  In my 31 years as a driver, I have never seen anything like this…” This was John Lubowa’s first remark as he sat down to narrate the truck drivers’ current ordeal as they transport goods across the East African region during the coronavirus crisis.   Lubowa …

Electoral Commission should give guidance because any talk of extension of elections must consider what our laws say COMMENT | MUKALAZI DEUS MUBIRU | The recent unprecedented Covid19 control measures, which included suspension of public meetings like political rallies, conferences and other related meetings, disrupted the core activities of the …

Minsk, Belarus | AFP |  Young men in dark hoodies and tracksuit bottoms form a human chain to pass down black sacks from a storeroom and pile them in the back of a car. These Belarusian volunteers have stepped in to rush free supplies of much-needed protective equipment to hospitals as authorities …

Bukomansimbi, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Hundreds of pupils and students in Bukomansimbi district are at risk of contracting Corona Virus Disease- Covid19 disease due to failure to maintain social-distancing. Several learners are forced to converge in the homes of their classmates to share of self-study material owning to the limited …

Bududa, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Over 20,000 children in Bududa district have missed out on the self-study materials disbursed by the Education and Sports Ministry to keep the learners busy during the Covid19 pandemic. Vicente Matanda, the Bududa Senior Education Officer, says they received 34,921 materials for primary learners yet …

Lagos, Nigeria | AFP | Nigeria has seized a British plane for flouting a travel ban imposed as part of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the aviation minister said Sunday. Flair Aviation, the airline involved, was authorised to conduct humanitarian flights but was caught operating commercial flights, Hadi Sirika said on …