Tag Archives: COVID-19

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Public health practitioner Prof. Freddie Sengooba has urged the Ministry of Health (MOH) to review and stop the protocol that they are currently using to bury people who succumb to COVID-19. He said they have borrowed the approach of Ebola hemorrhagic fever which presents differently …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  There is growing anxiety on the proposed re-opening of educational institutions, which were closed in March, to protect the over 15 million learners in high-risk concentration centres, against the COVID-19 threat.   At that time of the closure, the idea was that learners could report back …

Moroto, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Moroto Regional Referral Hospital and Uganda Prison Services authorities have opened an auxiliary treatment centre at Moroto prisons following an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in the district. Dr. Ben Watmon, the Director Moroto Regional Referral Hospital, says the decision was reached …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   Jordan’s Prime Minister Omar Razzaz on Sunday warned that the continuous rise in the number of local cases of COVID-19 poses risks of community transmission to the country. During an online address, the prime minister said that Jordan’s ability to combat the pandemic and continue …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   Algerian Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad on Sunday said that the date for the start of 2020-2021 school year depends on the COVID-19 situation in the country, the official APS news agency reported. Djerad told media that the scientific committee monitoring the spread of COVID-19 will …

Wakiso, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Authorities at Wakiso district education department have resumed inspection of schools several months since they were closed in preparation for learners to return for studies, the district education officer Fredrick Kiyingi Kinobe has said. He says that district inspectors of schools will by Monday 14th …

Why it favours Museveni Kampala, Uganda | GEOFFREY SSENOGA | Uganda is going to conduct its first digital and mass media campaigns ahead of its 2021 general elections. This comes as the country contemplates holding a “scientific election” wherein social distancing guidelines will be observed. On June 16, the Uganda …

SCHOOLS RE-OPENING: The tough decisions to be made Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Aug. 26, news reports emerged that GEMS Cambridge International School in Kampala was set to close by December. The Uganda Radio Network, a syndicated news provider, called it “yet another non-medical causality of the COVID-19 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu Regional Referral Hospital on Saturday discreetly discharged 30 patients who have recovered from coronavirus disease – COVID-19. Earlier this week, 27 others were discharged bringing to 275 cumulative recoveries from the facility since May. The individuals who included Gulu based journalists were flagged off …

Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An elderly COVID-19 patient has died from Moroto Regional Referral Hospital. The hospital’s director Dr Ben Watmon confirmed the death of an 87-year-old resident of Loputuk sub county in Moroto district on Saturday evening. He said the man reported to Moroto Hospital on September 10, …