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🔺9 frontline health workers from Kampala
🔺1 contact from Buvuma
🔺15 contacts from Kyotera
🔺2 contacts from Mayuge
🔺1 contact from Pader
🔺8 contacts from Yumbe
🔺11 foreigners from earlier collected samples tested positive for COVID-19
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | The Ministry of Health has today announced 36 new COVID-19 cases as Uganda’s tally rose to close to 600.
Uganda’s confirmed cases are now 593. All new confirmed cases are Ugandans and among alerts and contacts. The new cases were part of 1,310 samples that were tested on Friday.
The results come a day after Uganda’s Prime Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda self-isolated after his contacts tested positive, and as Cabinet ministers were tested. Several of them tested their negative test results on social media.
All the new cases are Ugandan contacts to people who have already tested positive for the disease. 15 of them are from Kyotera, nine are frontline health workers from Kampala while eight cases were from Yumbe. The rest were picked from the areas of Mayuge,Pader and Buvuma.
The nine cases among health workers brings the number of health workers who have tested positive for the disease to 17. Last week, the first case of an infected health worker was reported at Mulago Women and Neonatal Hospital.
Doctors under the Uganda Medical Association have in the past attributed the health worker’s infections to the poor training of health workers who are placed on COVID-19 treatment wards.
The rise in the number of community cases is a cause of worry according to health ministry officials. Dr Diana Atwine, the permanent secretary says they are worried the disease can easily spread now.
“Spread of the disease is now going to be easy with the more cases we are getting. Someone can easily get in touch in the community and spread the disease,” she said.
The health ministry has previously been concentrating on testing truck drivers to stop the spread of the disease in communities where they normally make stops. However, experts say it was hard to control the movement of drivers because in some cases they provided false information which made tracking them difficult.
As of today, 82 people have been discharged.
Government directives are not followed by most people e.g bodaboda cyclists in most places in Uganda Carry passengers up to four.Those supposed to enforce the rules like the police officers just look on.we are worried we expect the worst scenario in the country if the law enforcement officers don’t Wake up.
This is the time were Covid-19 pandamic is going to discipline Ugandan becouse most people are not following the presidental directive. you fine that people were ask to put on facemarsk in pablic but majority of Ugandan are not putting on facemarsk espicelly in the upper country eg northern. so my apeel to low enforcement officers (police and militery army ) to pul up there shocks
The country will start reporting a thousand death a day if lock down is not reinstated .the Langi are not complying with covid-19 prevention measures.