Tag Archives: COVID-19

Soroti, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  36 districts have failed to to submit draft budget estimates, work plans and performance contracts for the financial year 2020/2021. The revelation is contained in the letter addressed to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government by Keith Muhakanizi, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Finance, …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health has advised the public to keep away from truck drivers after three tested positive for COVID-19. One of the truck drivers was a Ugandan national from Tororo district who was travelling from Kenya. He was found in Kamdini. The other two …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & AFP  | Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization who has been criticised by the US for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, warned for years that countries were not prepared in case one broke out. The most shocking outbreak at …

Washington, United States | AFP | The experimental antiviral drug remdesivir has proven effective against COVID-19 in a small experiment involving monkeys, US government scientists reported Friday. The study, which is preliminary and has not yet been peer reviewed, was designed to follow dosing and treatment procedures used for hospitalized COVID-19 patients in a large …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organisation-WHO is calling for more testing for COVID-19 to be carried out in African countries to know the exact number of infected people. The call was made during a virtual press briefing on Friday. While many countries on the continent have put …

Kampala, Uganda | Isaac Nkechi | Various media outlets, particularly social media, were awash with stories linking the roll-out of 5G mobile network to the novel coronavirus-Covid-19 pandemic over the past weeks. These included spurious theories claiming that 5G makes people more susceptible to the virus while some more extreme proposals even …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leading drug manufacturing firms, Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline, have entered into an agreement to develop an adjuvanted vaccine for COVID-19, using innovative technology from both companies to help address the ongoing pandemic. Sanofi will contribute its S-protein COVID-19 antigen, which is based on recombinant DNA technology. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum district COVID-19 taskforce has resolved to ban all cross-border truck drivers from making stopovers in the district. The resolution made during a weekly task-force meeting on Friday aims at curbing truck drivers from neighbouring East African countries from spreading the virus. This was in …

  UPDATE: Uganda Covid19 ✳ 9,975 tested ✳ 55 confirmed cases ✳ 1 foreign (to be repatriated) ✳ 20 recoveries ✳ 35 active cases ✳ 0 deaths Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Uganda health officials and Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) have traced a Tanzanian driver heading to DRC who …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda (CoU), the Most Rev. Samuel Stephen Kazimba Mugalu has asked Ugandans to feed the clergy, teachers and medical personnel as the country experiences the COVID 19 pandemic. Archbishop Kazimba was this afternoon speaking at the handover of an …