COVID-19: Three deaths, record 94 new cases

The 94 new cases as follows:

🔺 53 alerts
✳ 51 from Kampala
✳ 1 from Wakiso
✳ 1 from Buvuma

🔺 33 contacts to previously confirmed cases:
✳ 21 from Kampala

🔺 1 returnee:
✳ 1 from Kenya
🔺 7 truck drivers

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🔺 3 deaths (total now 19)

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🔺14 foreign truck drivers sent back

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda announced three new deaths and 94 new cases as the COVID-19 pandemic numbers shot up mainly from Kampala.  Seventy two of the 94 are from Kampala.

The three new deaths sent to 19 the number of deaths in the past one month.

This is the highest single-day spike since the outbreak of Coronavirus Disease in Uganda. The previous highest was in May when up to 84 people tested positive in one day – this was before foreign truck drivers were put of the list of Uganda’s cases.

Kampala was early in the week declared a hot spot by the Ministry of Health warning that there are a lot of yet to be detected cases as already positive people have been got from the highly populated downtown arcades of Namaganda and Garilaya Plaza.

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