Uganda COVID-19 history 🔹 April 3 – 3 new cases – TOTAL 48 🔸 April 2 – 1 new case – TOTAL 45 🔹 March 31 – 11 new cases – TOTAL 44 🔸 March 29 – 3 new cases – TOTAL 33 🔹 March 28 – 7 new cases …
Read More »Scientists form coalition to lead COVID-19 research for treatments in low income countries
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A group of scientists and policymakers have launched an international research campaign that will focus on COVID-19 treatments options and vaccine research for low-income countries. The COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition which will consist of physicians is targeting African and Asian countries with the poor …
Read More »Test, protect, inform: what HIV can teach us about COVID-19
Paris, France | AFP | From being a killer in the shadows, to having its own international day and UN programme, HIV’s emergence into a global reality can offer many lessons in how to respond to COVID-19, the head of the International Aids Society told AFP Thursday. Kevin Osborne, who has lived with HIV for nearly half his …
Read More »‘Superheroes’: Coronavirus survivors donate plasma hoping to heal the sick
New York, United States | AFP | As she emerges from quarantine, recovered COVID-19 patient Diana Berrent is eager to join the battle against the pandemic and donate precious antibodies that researchers hope might help others. In mid-March, the New Yorker woke up with a 102-degree (39 Celsius) fever and intense …
Read More »Elegu immigration officials accused of allowing Ugandans into country
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Immigration officials at Elegu, the Uganda– South Sudan border in Amuru District are on the spot for allegedly clearing six Ugandans into the country. On March 22, Uganda closed her borders with South Sudan to contain the outbreak of the deadly disease in the country. …
Read More »Rubirizi health workers stuck outside district due to ban on public, private transport
Rubirizi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rubirizi district is short of health workers as most of them are stuck outside the district following the presidential ban on public and private transport. The Rubirizi District Health Officer, Kisesete Tibenda says most health workers are stuck in Mbarara, Ishaka and Bushenyi districts because …
Read More »UNBS names companies with fake sanitizers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has named companies that have failed laboratory tests and likely to sell substandard sanitizers. The standards body said in a notice on Thursday evening urged the public not to buy particular companies’ products. “This is aimed at protecting consumers …
Read More »Antibody tests key to ending COVID-19 lockdowns
Paris, France | AFP | It’s the key that opens to door from total lockdown: serologic testing, which will show definitively who has contracted COVID-19 and is in theory safe to return to work. “Everyone’s waiting for serologic testing, the whole world,” said France’s Health Minister Olivier Veran. He said that …
Read More »COVID-19: Ugandan cases now stand at 45
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health registered one new case of COVID-19 today, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 45. The latest case is of a 22-year-old female, a resident of Nkokonjeru, Wakiso district and wife to a previously confirmed case who arrived from Dubai …
Read More »Man who completed quarantine further isolated after presenting high fever
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A man who had completed the 14 day mandatory self-quarantine in Kitgum municipality has been retained after presenting high fever while undergoing screening at Kitgum general hospital. The suspect was reportedly sent into isolation on Wednesday afternoon after his temperature measured 38 degrees celsius …
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