Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Medical Association has cautioned Ugandans against the use of cloth masks. According to the doctor’s umbrella organisation, the use of cloth masks does not offer the necessary protection against COVID-19 and might instead cause more harm. Dr Mukuzi Muhereza, the General Secretary of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | ” I am the bread earner. I am everything in my family. I am dead.” Those were the first words Patient Zero said after Ministry of Health officials told him that tests had confirmed he was positive for COVID-19. The Director of Entebbe Hospital …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A new platform has been created by global Youth HIV charity organization LetsStopAIDS to help vulnerable communities across the world access information about Coronavirus Disease (COVID -19) pandemic in local languages. The inventors of the platform, named HeyCOVID19.com, say that they came up with the …
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London, United Kingdom | AFP | Boris Johnson left hospital on Sunday to convalesce from COVID-19 at Chequers, the country estate of British prime ministers, officials said, a week after he was admitted and then spent three days in intensive care. The 55-year-old leader will not be immediately returning to work, …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Persons living with disability in Gulu district are demanding for sign language interpreters involved in the sensitization exercise on COVID -19. Their concerns come after no sign language interpreter has been included among the team going out to sensitize the local community on COVID -19. …
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Luweero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bishops in Luweero have said that the COVID- 19 pandemic should be a lesson to all the Christians to glorify God rather than their money. Uganda has so far registered 53 confirmed cases of COVID 19 and as a result, the country is on lockdown …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry has so far discharged 303 COVID-19 suspects from different quarantine centers in Entebbe Municipality in Wakiso district. The suspects, who have been in isolation in hotels and Guest houses, were discharged between Friday and Saturday evening. Our report has since established that …
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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Masaka District Covid-19 Taskforce has tasked village council chairpersons to ensure compliance to the presidential directives and Ministry of Health guidelines to preventing the spread of the virus. Herman Ssentongo the Masaka Resident Commissioner and Covid-19 response taskforce chairperson say they have observed …
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Algiers, Algeria | AFP | Algeria faces economic and social turmoil if crude prices continue to collapse, experts have warned, with the oil-dependent country reeling from a year of popular protests, political turmoil and now, coronavirus. The North African country is an example of how hydrocarbon economies are likely to face …
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Washington, United States | AFP | Abortion rights advocates on Saturday called on the US Supreme Court to urgently intervene to force Texas to reinstate the right to abortion, which has been suspended in the state since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic. This is the first appeal related to …
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