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Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  With her one-year-old baby stuck on the breast, Ritah Nakamya rises from a wooden stool behind her tomatoes, carrots and onions stall, to attend to me. Nakamya is one of the vendors in Kalerwe, an often crowded fresh foods market in Kampala.   She only returned to …

Kikube, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  Ten more refugees in Kyangwali Refugee settlement area in Kikuube district have tested positive for COVID-19. Dr Nicholas Kwikiriza, the Kikuube District Health Officer –DHO says the confirmed cases are contacts of the Congolese national who succumbed to the pandemic on August 8, 2020, in the …

The virus has since moved from high density urban areas to the congested slums Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Aug. 14 marked six months since COVID-19 was first detected on the continent. While the virus has accelerated in many other regions of the world, the pandemic’s evolution on the …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Vision Group has raised a work place alert after a male journalist working with Bukedde News Paper tested positive for Coronavirus Disease-COVID-19.  The journalist whose samples were tested over the weekend has been picked by the Ministry of Health team for treatment. The search for …

Busia, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Busia district has allocated the 2.9-acre piece of land hosting Sofia Market to the Health Ministry for the expansion of Port health hospital. The market, which is found in Sofia village in Eastern division, was closed by the District Task Force in March due to …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | A six-months-old baby; Moreen Agwanyi, who was born with craniofacial anomalies which prevented her from closing her right eye has successfully undergone an operation at Mulago National Referral Hospital. Agwanyi was born without an orbital bone on the right side of her face below the …

Mbarara, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Mbarara Regional Prisons Laboratory has received its first GeneXpert Machine to undertake Tuberculosis examinations before integrating new inmates. The GeneXpert machine detects  Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a sample of sputum. If there are TB bacteria in the sample, the machine detects their DNA and automatically multiplies …

The 49 new cases as follows: 🔺37 alerts ✳ 17 from Kampala ✳ 2 from Wakiso ✳14 from Namisindwa ✳1 from Kiryandongo ✳ 2 from Mbarara & Lamwo 🔺6 contacts to previously confirmed cases: ✳ 1 from Bushenyi ✳ 5 from Kampala 🔺 4 returnees: ✳ 3 from Saudi Arabia …

Kigezi , Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in border districts in the Kigezi region have questioned the failure by the Ministry of Health to deliver face masks to the area.  They say that the area’s proximity to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo increases the risk for the people …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Gulu have blamed street children for the devastating fire that razed over 10 huts in Kanyagoga Parish in Gulu City West Division, on Wednesday. Preliminary findings recorded in a general inquiry file at Gulu Central Police Station indicate that 11 huts were burnt …