Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 1,000 residents of Elegu Town Council at the Uganda South Sudan Border in Amuru district have taken refuge at the Uganda Revenue Authority warehouse following recurrent flash floods. On Sunday night the residents, consisting of children, women, male and elderly persons deserted their …
Read More »Ministry of Health commissions mobile laboratories
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry has launched the long awaited COVID-19 mobile laboratories. The mobile labs were supposed to begin work some months back when they were donated but this was all in vain. They couldn’t be launched due to lack of the Polymerase Chain Reaction-PCR machine …
Read More »Amuru leaders demand mandatory COVID-19 tests
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Amuru district leaders have asked the government to consider mandatory COVID-19 testing of all area residents following an increase in community infections among residents of Elegu township in Atiak sub county. The cases are expected to have been people who made contacts with truck …
Read More »Amuru leaders demand for a health centre III in Elegu
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Amuru district leaders are demanding for a health centre III in Elegu town council at the one stop border point. An estimated 10,000 people who are residents in Elegu depend on Biabia health III which is 11 kilometres away or Atiak health cente IV …
Read More »UGANDA: Record 84 test positive May 30
🔺 May 30th – new COVID-19 cases 84 🔺 Total confirmed cases 413. 🔺 50 new cases are from South Sudan point of entry 🔺 32 new cases are contacts to previously confirmed truck drivers. 🔹51 positive foreign truck drivers were handed over to their country of origin 🔸Total Recoveries: …
Read More »South Sudan new hotspot, 21 truck drivers test COVID-19 positive
🔺 May 27th – new COVID-19 cases 28 🔺 Total confirmed cases 281. 🔺 21 new cases are from South Sudan point of entry 🔺 7 new cases are contacts to previously confirmed truck drivers. 🔹7 positive foreign truck drivers (4 Tanzanians,1 Eritrean,1 Congolese and 1 Burundian) were handed …
Read More »Sex workers turn cargo trucks into lodges in Elegu
Elegu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The cargo trucks that have formed lengthy queues in Elegu town council, Amuru district are facilitating illicit commercial sex trade in the area. As a safeguard to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, all lodges in Elegu town were closed in …
Read More »Elegu gets mobile laboratory to accelerate testing of truck drivers
Elegu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Elegu One-Stop border post in Amuru district has been allocated one mobile laboratory to accelerate testing of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) among truck drivers. The lab is expected to be equipped with modern technology for testing and diagnosing most pathogens in addition to providing …
Read More »UGANDA: 21 new COVID-19 cases
UPDATE UGANDA 🔸 21 new cases (truck drivers) ✳ 248 Confirmed cases ✳ 63 Recoveries ✳ 0 deaths Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Another 21 truck drivers have tested positive for coronavirus disease COVID-19 according to results released by the health ministry this morning. This brings the number of confirmed cases to 248. …
Read More »Why truck drivers spread COVID-19
What it means for taxis, bodaboda Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On average, each cross border truck driver in Uganda has contact with at least two sex partners per week, according to research. Given that over 31,588 long distance truck drivers are estimated by researchers to be living in …
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