Epidemics Tracker

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | All members of the Watoto Children’s choir who had tested positive for COVID-19 have all recovered according to information from the church. 14 out of 22 members of the choir tested positive upon returning into the country from the United Kingdom. Watoto Church Associate …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wakiso district health authorities are set to conduct Covid-19 confirmatory tests for over 1500 people after completing their 14 mandatory isolation period. This includes people who been under self and institutional quarantine and returned to the country between March 11 and 20th this year. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Engineer Charles Banya Lwanga, one of the patients who have just recovered from coronavirus disease-COVID-19 has decried the hostility and stigma against travelers who entered Uganda during the month of March. The Ministry of Health has overtime stated that it is tracing over 18,800 people …

Sokolniki, Russia | AFP |   After years spent on submarines with Russia’s Northern Fleet, Ivan Chernyshyov is having no problem adjusting to life on coronavirus lockdown — especially as, like many Russians, the retired sailor can escape to the countryside. “It’s good here. We’ll grow carrots and strawberries and maybe …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One of the greatest dangers that the world faces during the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic is complacency, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The UN agency says while countries were quick to put in place strict preventive measures to forestall the spread of the …

Busia, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Fish dealers under Busia Fish Traders Association-BUFA have resolved to reduce on the numbers of vendors in a bid to decongest the market to avert the possible spread of the Covid19 disease. At least more than 360 people including brokers, transporters and fish mongers among …

  COMMENT | Simon Peter Longoli | The year 2020 has already presented us with a stream of disasters, especially in the northeastern part of Uganda. Notable among these have been the credible risk of resurgence of livestock theft and rustling, the locust crisis and the biggest of them all …

London, United Kingdom | AFP |  Joan Pons Laplana is a senior digital charge nurse working on the frontline in an intensive care unit treating coronavirus patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospital in the north of England. Like many of his colleagues in the state-run National Health Service (NHS), the 45-year-old medic …

Brussels, Belgium | AFP |  EU leaders are set to haggle on Thursday over a giant package to help their economies recover from the coronavirus pandemic, but bitter divisions mean little progress is expected. The situation facing the EU is dire: more than 110,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths and an economy set …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Julius Businge  |  Expenditure for the new budget should mainly focus on key sectors that must support revamping of the economy, according to civil society organisations under their umbrella group, Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG).  In a joint statement dated April 20, the group …