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UGANDA: 21 new COVID cases, 11 fatalities

A health worker takes a sample from a truck driver undergoing a test for COVID-19 in Malaba. FILE PHOTO

UPDATE

🔺 August 12th – new COVID-19 cases 21
🔺 Total confirmed cases 1,353.
🔺 8 new cases are from Malaba point of entry
🔺 12 new cases are contacts and community alerts.

🔹 Total Deaths: 11
🔸Total Recoveries: 1,141
🔹Samples from Points of Entry tested today:2,871
🔸Samples from community and contacts: 1,147
🔹Samples tested today: 4,108

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has today registered 2 new COVID-19 deaths bring the total number to 11 in Uganda.

The two fatalities are residents of Kampala metropolitan area: A 60 year old male of Indian origin who passed on at International Hospital Kampala (IHK) and a 55 year old old Ugandan male who passed on while admitted in ICU at Mulago Hospital. They both presented signs and symptoms of COVID-19 prior to their deaths.

Similarly, the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in Uganda has risen to 1,353 today after 21 samples tested positive yesterday.

8 of the new cases are truck drivers who arrived from Kenya via Malaba border. 3 are contacts of previously confirmed cases in Kampala and 1 a returnee from South Sudan.

Of the 9 new community alerts, 5 are from Kampala and 4 from Masaka, Kasese, Luweero and Iganga.

Additionally, 28 foreign truck drivers were sent back to their countries of origin after testing positive for the virus.

4 comments

  1. Corona is real.lets stay safe.

  2. Fellow Ugandans at large,coronavirus is already here and so let’s follow all the directives to stay safe from this pandemic. But even the government should consider all the boarder districts when giving out masks because like here in rukiga district we haven’t got yet we have many unemployed youth who trespass to smuggle alcohol in Rwanda.

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