Tag Archives: COVID-19

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda’s response to disease outbreaks is managed by untrained people, according to findings from a study carried out by the Makerere University School of Public Health.   The study established that often, disease outbreak responses at the district level are led by politicians instead of trained …

Firing Fat Boy, hiring Salvador and the other side of the COVID-19 induced pandemic of lay-offs and pay cuts COMMENT | JOSEPH WERE | Did I just lose my job to a 100-year old woman? Dawn Silver, a young female morning radio drive show DJ says exactly that at the …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The International Labor Organization (ILO), a Geneva-based UN agency, said on Tuesday the number of working hours lost across the world in the first half of 2020 was significantly worse than previously estimated and that there are risks of large scale job losses. In the latest …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The United Nations on Tuesday launched a new campaign to counter, by fostering personal behavior change, the growing threat of misinformation online, particularly with regard to COVID-19. The campaign, called Pause, asks digital users to take the time to think about what they are about to …

Serere, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Education authorities in Serere district have asked the government to partially reopen schools starting with areas that do not have confirmed Covid-19 cases. The proposal follows an assessment of the recent interventions by the government to help children learn at home. Government has been …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 4.1 million girls around the world will undergo Female Genital Mutilation- FGM during the lockdown because they are out of school due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is according to the State of World Population report released on Tuesday by the United …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eleven Ugandans who recently returned from Afghanistan have tested positive for COVID-19 according to results released from the health ministry today. All the 11 returnees were under quarantine at the time of testing. The returnees are part of 19 cases that tested positive from …

Kampala, Uganda | Nansubuga Prossy | The Democratic Party (DP) has asked government to declare a state of emergency and postpone the 2021 elections as a preventive measure for Covid-19 in Uganda. While addressing the press at the party headquarters, the DP Press secretary, Mr.Fred Mwesigwa said the election process is …

Arua, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Arua Hospital has started sending samples to Adjumani hospital laboratory for testing.  Since the outbreak of covid-19 in March samples collected from suspects and contacts in the West Nile region were sent to the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe. Two weeks ago, a mobile …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Alliance for National transformation-ANT, Uganda’s youngest political party is scheduled to conduct nominations for its presidential candidates on Wednesday and Thursday this week.     Uganda Radio Network spoke to the party founder Rtd. Maj. Gen. Gregory Mugisha Muntu on Monday in an exclusive …