Tag Archives: COVID-19

wakiso, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Residents of Kira municipality in Wakiso district are receiving chicken and eggs on top of the relief food to households whose livelihood was disrupted by measures to control the spread of COVID-19.   According to the initial arrangement, the government intended to distribute six kilograms of …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The National COVID-19 Taskforce has agreed that all trucks entering Uganda will have only one person on board for the next four weeks in a move to control the movement and exposure of Ugandans to foreign truck drivers.  The meeting which was convened yesterday decided …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has embarked on strengthening malaria treatment after community health workers raised complaints of people not being able to go to health facilities for tests and treatment following a lockdown on public transport. Despite a reported surge in malaria cases, many people …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kampala is holding two suspects for forging COVID-19 vehicle stickers. The two identified as Dickson Mugarura and one only identified as Julius were found with a replica of permits issued by the Ministry of Works and Transport to ease the movement of …

Washington, United States | AFP | The global coronavirus death toll approached 200,000 on Saturday as the United Nations launched an international push for a vaccine to defeat the pandemic. Governments around the world are struggling to limit the economic devastation unleashed by the virus, which has infected nearly 2.8 million …

Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lamwo district COVID-19 taskforce has resolved to ban long-distance truck drivers from making stopovers in the area as one of the measures to control the spread of coronavirus disease. This restrictive measure comes in the wake of an increase in infections among long-distance truck …

Wakiso, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Residents of Katooke village in Nansana Municipality are concerned that food that’s distributed by the government might not be enough to take them through the time of the COVID-19 lockdown.   The government is distributing 6 kilograms of Maize Flour and three kilograms of beans to …

 Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Julius Businge | Centenary Bank General Manager in charge of financial markets Benoni Okwenje says the Uganda shilling trading with other foreign currencies’ especially the US dollar will largely remain unchanged in the week that starts tomorrow.  In a notice dated April 24, Okwenje said: …

As Africa heads towards recession, it’s not easy to know where to invest. Akinyi Ochieng and Isaac Kwaku Fokuo, Jr. highlight three areas that are likely to fare better during the downturn  Back in January, Africa’s economic outlook for the year was bright. African Development Bank projections predicted 3.9% growth in 2020 and …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Moving to Canada at a time when the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) that has quickly become a global pandemic was a strange flu-like illness hitting parts of China, Dennis Lewis Bukenya never anticipated that he would ever get involved in any work related to the disease …