Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry has come out to discourage the use of the face shields as an alternative to face masks. The Ministry of Health has recently noted the increasing numbers of Ugandans using face shields instead of face masks as a preventive measure against Covid-19, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As schools reopened after a seven month’s break due to COVID-19, teachers and students have said they prefer using the face shields than the masks. On the first two days of school under the new normal, Simon Baker Ayella, a teacher at St. Martins …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the country continues to register cases of COVID-19, many health facilities are increasingly facing a shortage of personal protective gear owing to high demand. The situation has since put lives of front line health workers at risk. A group of environmental activists have …
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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The emergence of the global coronavirus pandemic could turn into fortunes to Persons with Disabilities in Masaka district who have started making face-shields, a type of protective gear used to stop the transmission of the disease. The group had initially set out as environmental …
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