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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has revised the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country by removing the number of foreign truck drivers from its cases following a decision made by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The total number of confirmed cases in the country has now been …

Mpigi, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Health authorities in Mpigi District are mooting for the elevation of Nakasongola health centre IV to a hospital status to improve service delivery.  The Health Center receives an average of 800 patients every month. It also attends to accident victims along the Kampala-Masaka Highway.   It …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Seven laboratories have been added onto the testing network for COVID-19 in the country. Until yesterday, the country was only using the Entebbe based Uganda Virus Research Institute-UVRI to conduct COVID-19 tests. The  new centres include Makerere University’s department of microbiology and immunology, National Health …

Godfrey Sserwanja, the Hoima District Education officer-DEO told Uganda Radio network that they approached the Rapid Assessment survey team to have the teachers tested since the teachers interact with many people more especially the children they teach saying it was crucial for the health ministry to engage teachers in the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the number of COVID-19 positive cases continues to rise in Uganda, government plans to roll out a mass surveillance exercise under which over 8 million people will be tested. According to Health Ministry officials, they are targeting to test 20 percent of the …

Mukono, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Health Ministry has intercepted the Ugandan truck driver who tested positive for the Corona virus disease-Covid19. The fuso truck driver was intercepted on Saturday evening at a police check point at the Mukono-Jinja- Bugerere road junction on his way from Kampala to Mbale district. …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda has registered 13 new COVID-19 cases, the biggest number in a single day. This brings to 114, the number of confirmed Covid19 cases in Uganda. The 13 cases were identified from the 2,421 samples collected from truck drivers on May 8th, 2020. According …

Kyotera, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry is yet to find one of the Covid-19 positive cases in Kyotera district. The positive case is a Ugandan male whose sample was picked along the road in Mutukula border town during the ongoing community survey. Atek Kagirita, the COVID-19 incident …

Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Masindi district has received 660 COVID-19 test kits from the Health Ministry to test people in high risk areas. This comes several days after a police detective attached to Masindi Central Police Station tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, hundreds of people believed …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The number of COVID-19 confirmed cases has surpassed the 100-mark after a sample of a Tanzanian truck driver tested positive. The case is a 32-year-old driver who entered the country via the Mutukula border. His sample was among 3,091 samples that were tested at the …