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Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has directed the Minister of Health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng to explain the delayed payment of 300 frontline health personnel deployed to fight coronavirus Disease. Kadaga’s directive followed a query by Buhweju County MP Francis Mwijukye who cited the …

Kampala, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT |The Ministry of Health has discharged four patients including the first confirmed Covid-19 patient also known as patient zero. Patient Zero is a 36-year- old Ugandan male who arrived from United Arab Emirates on March 21 and was later found to be positive with Corona virus Disease-COVID-19. …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health is tracing more than 2000 travelers who are suspected to have been exposed to COVID-19  as they travelled to Uganda. The travelers came from Dubai and other high risk countries before the government announced restrictions on travelers from countries like …

Kisoro, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Rev. Fr. John Bazimenyera, the dean of Mutolere parish in Kabale diocese has been arrested for defying the ban on the closure of churches.  Fr. Bazimenyera who is currently being detained at Kisoro police station was found with two unidentified nuns conducting Holy Mass at …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The presence of COVID-19 in the Democratic Republic of Congo is not something that Ugandans need to be worried about, according to the Ministry of Health. The country reported one case of the highly contagious disease in the capital-Kinshasha on Wednesday. The infected person is …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda has restricted travelling to nine more countries that have been hit by COVID 19.  The affected countries are San Marino, Belgium, USA, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Austria and Malaysia.  According to the health ministry, these countries have reported large cumulative numbers of infected …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The DRC has discharged the last Ebola patient from a treatment center located in  the North Eastern town of Beni according to the country’s Ministry of Health. Thishis comes after more than a year after an Ebola outbreak was declared in DRC in August 2018. …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT | 220 travellers to Uganda from China have been isolated in their homes. According to a situational report released on Tuesday by the health ministry, the 220 who include Chinese Nationals and Ugandans arrived in the country between Sunday and Tuesday morning.  They are being monitored …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Preliminary results from both the Uganda Virus Research Institute and the World Health Organization have ruled out the measles/Rubella Vaccine as the cause of death for a young boy who died after the Mass Vaccination held in October. The five-year-old boy was among millions of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The World Health Organisation has cautioned that a Vaccine Derived Polio Virus, remains an emergency for Africa where several children under 15 remain unvaccinated.     Vaccine-derived polio spreads mostly where vaccine coverage is low and there is poor sanitation. In this case, a child who is …