Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT Five more staff of Radio Pacis in Arua city have tested positive for COVID-19 triggering tension among management and staff. This brings to ten, the number of staff at the station that has tested positive for COVID-19 within a week. The five are part of Radio …
Read More »COVID-19: Ministry of finance, UNRA staff test positive
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT At least 21 staff at the Ministry of Finance and six from Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) have tested positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) as the cases grow among different private and public agencies. Finance staff under-went mandatory COVID-19 test on August 19. Test results, according …
Read More »Mukono Task Force hunts for four missing COVID-19 patients
Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The medical surveillance team in Mukono has failed to trace four of the people who tested positive to COVID-19 patients in the district. At least five COVID-19 cases were recorded in the area, from tests that were conducted between Thursday and Saturday by the …
Read More »Cipla Quality Chemicals in sh4.6b expansion move
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Drugs maker Cipla Quality Chemicals Limited (CiplaQCi) has announced that it has paid 4.7 billion Shillings to acquire what they described as the Human Care Business assets of Quality Chemicals Limited. According to Nevin Bradford, the executive director of Cipla Quality Chemicals Limited, the …
Read More »COVID-19: Ministry of Finance grapples with 21 cases, UNRA 6
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 21 staff at the Ministry of Finance and six from Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) have tested positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) as the cases grow among different private and public agencies. Finance staff under-went mandatory COVID-19 test on August 19. Test results, …
Read More »POSITIVE: Kasingye shares his COVID-19 results
📌 #Uganda UPDATE ✳️ 97 new #COVID19 cases ✳️ The cumulative total confirmed cases now 2,263 🔺Contacts & alerts 90: Kampala- 59 Wakiso- 11 Buikwe- 6 Luweero- 3 Namisindwa- 3 Mukono- 2 Jinja- 2 Kabale- 1 Oyam – 1 Tororo – 1 🔺1 returnee from Mali 🔺6 truck drivers Kampala, …
Read More »Uganda listed among first countries to benefit from vaginal ring rollout
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has been listed among the first seven countries that will benefit from the roll out of the vaginal ring used in prevention against HIV, the International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) has revealed. IPM’s external relations director Dr. Leonard Solai told journalists that other …
Read More »COVID-19: 90% of Kampala cases used a taxi before infection
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Up to 90% of Kampala’s record 175 COVID-19 cases have reported using public transport and the taxi park. The other key of source of infection, according to a statement from Kampala Capital City Authority, are offices, workshops and arcades, due to noncompliance to …
Read More »Bushenyi RDC halts mosquito net distribution in Ishaka municipality
Some of the recovered bells of Mosquito nets Bushenyi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT Bushenyi Resident District Commissioner Jolly Tibemanya has halted the distribution of Mosquito nets in the Central division of Bushenyi/Ishaka Municipality citing inaccuracies in the list of beneficiaries. The government, through the Ministry of Health, launched the distribution of …
Read More »Constitutional court orders gov’t to compile audit on maternal health
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Constitutional Court has ordered the government to compile and submit to Parliament and court a full audit report on the status of maternal health in Uganda at the end of each of the next two financial years. The panel of five Judges who …
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