Tag Archives: COVID-19

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has postponed the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup qualifiers due to COVID-19. A statement issued by CAF said the postponement of the qualifiers was as a result of travel restrictions across the African continent. “Due to travel restrictions across …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  Uganda Revenue Authority – URA registered a surplus in tax collections for July 2020 after some people and corporations that had suspended payments during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown paid up. URA collected 1.2 trillion Shillings in July 2020 against a target of 1.02 trillion Shillings – …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda announced two new deaths and 60 new cases as the COVID-19 pandemic numbers shot up mainly in the city Kampala. The two deaths were patients admitted at one of the city’s leading hospitals, Rubaga. This brings to 15 the number of deaths in …

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 …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | A member of staff of The New Vision has tested positive for COVID-19 and the media house plans further checks to ensure more are not infected. “I wish to inform you that Vision Group has registered a case of COVID-19. One …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Works and Transport General Katumba Wamala has raised concern about the growing rate of community transmission of COVID-19, and said government could be forced into another lock-down of public transport. “Fellow Ugandans, it has come to my attention that some taxi …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |  Japanese tennis player and former U.S. Open runner-up Kei Nishikori said Sunday he has contracted COVID-19 and has withdrawn from the Western & Southern Open that starts next week. “I have some unfortunate news,” Nishikori said through social media. “This morning while still in Florida, …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |    U.S. President Donald Trump has again pushed for schools to reopen despite the severe COVID-19 pandemic across the country, according to The Guardian newspaper. “We got to open up our schools and open our businesses,” Trump said on Wednesday. “Children often have only mild symptoms, …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  The speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga has noted that gender equality is a key driver of resilience to challenges like the COVID-19 Pandemic that has ravaged the world.  She was speaking on Monday during a virtual meeting platform of the 13th Summit of Women Speakers of …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |  Egypt confirmed on Sunday 139 new COVID-19 infections and 19 deaths, raising the total cases registered in the country since the outbreak of the pandemic to 96,475 and the death toll to 5,160, said the Egyptian Health Ministry. Meanwhile, 908 coronavirus patients were cured and …