The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Last week, the Health Ministry launched two mobile apps meant to ease access to medical care. While the ‘Call the Clinic’ app is solely meant to curb the spread of COVID-19 by offering a platform to contact surveillance teams or trace contacts of positive …
Read More »Little sisters of Mary Immaculate Gulu celebrate pentecost sunday
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate Gulu on Sunday held celebrations to commemorate the Pentecost Sunday. The Pentecost Sunday is a holy day when Christians celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit 40 days after Easter. It is also considered the birthday of the Christian church. …
Read More »It is too early to rule out COVID-19 community transmission
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Scientists have advised that it is too early to rule out community transmission of coronavirus disease in Uganda. According to the World Health Organisation, community transmissions are cases of a disease that crop up within a community without a clear source or origin of an …
Read More »Foreign truck drivers off list as Uganda revises COVID-19 cases
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has revised the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country by removing the number of foreign truck drivers from its cases following a decision made by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The total number of confirmed cases in the country has now been …
Read More »Mpigi district wants health center IV elevated to hospital status
Mpigi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health authorities in Mpigi District are mooting for the elevation of Nakasongola health centre IV to a hospital status to improve service delivery. The Health Center receives an average of 800 patients every month. It also attends to accident victims along the Kampala-Masaka Highway. It …
Read More »Seven more laboratories accredited for COVID-19 testing
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Seven laboratories have been added onto the testing network for COVID-19 in the country. Until yesterday, the country was only using the Entebbe based Uganda Virus Research Institute-UVRI to conduct COVID-19 tests. The new centres include Makerere University’s department of microbiology and immunology, National Health …
Read More »More than 100 Hoima teachers tested for COVID-19
Godfrey Sserwanja, the Hoima District Education officer-DEO told Uganda Radio network that they approached the Rapid Assessment survey team to have the teachers tested since the teachers interact with many people more especially the children they teach saying it was crucial for the health ministry to engage teachers in the …
Read More »Gov’t targets to test 8.6M Ugandans under COVID-19 mass surveillance
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the number of COVID-19 positive cases continues to rise in Uganda, government plans to roll out a mass surveillance exercise under which over 8 million people will be tested. According to Health Ministry officials, they are targeting to test 20 percent of the …
Read More »Covid-19 positive truck driver intercepted in Mukono
Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry has intercepted the Ugandan truck driver who tested positive for the Corona virus disease-Covid19. The fuso truck driver was intercepted on Saturday evening at a police check point at the Mukono-Jinja- Bugerere road junction on his way from Kampala to Mbale district. …
Read More »Uganda registers 13 new COVID-19 cases
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has registered 13 new COVID-19 cases, the biggest number in a single day. This brings to 114, the number of confirmed Covid19 cases in Uganda. The 13 cases were identified from the 2,421 samples collected from truck drivers on May 8th, 2020. According …
Read More »