Uganda COVID-19 history 🔸 April 15-18 – 0 new cases – TOTAL 55 🔹 April 14 – 1 new case – TOTAL 55 🔸 April 13 – 0 new cases – TOTAL 54 🔹 April 12 – 1 new case – TOTAL 54 🔸 April 9-11 – 0 new – …
Read More »Embassies start registering Ugandans stranded abroad for possible evacuation
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan Embassies and High Commissions abroad have started the process of registering and verifying Ugandans who are stranded due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) for possible evacuation and support. Uganda has 31 embassies and High commissions and 42 consulates. A number of these have started reaching …
Read More »Full list of 34 Ugandan measures to contain COVID-19
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda today extended a nation-wide lock-down to control COVID-19 by 21 days, to May 5th. It means the 34 measures outlined since March 18 to control the spread of the pandemic will continue to be implemented. President Yoweri Museveni sounded buoyant as he repeated …
Read More »Museveni directs security forces to shoot those who pelt stones at them
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has directed security officers who don’t have protective gear like shields and helmets to fire at those throwing stones at them. Speaking at State House Nakasero today, Museveni said that throwing stones to officers on duty who have no protective gear is …
Read More »Museveni advises banks to relax loan repayments
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In a way of emphasis on bank loans, President Yoweri Museveni has said banks must not count days when people have not been working to service active loans. Millions of Ugandans in both the formal and informal sectors are currently not working as a result …
Read More »Electricity officials explain nationwide power blackout that delayed Museveni address
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL), Umeme and Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) have apologized for a power blackout that delayed President Yoweri Musevehi’s speech on COVID-19 today. “We regret the national power blackout occasioned by a huge floating water weed island …
Read More »LIVE: Uganda lock-down extended for 21 days
Uganda COVID-19 history 🔹 April 14 – ……. – TOTAL 54 🔸 April 13 – 0 new cases – TOTAL 54 ↘ April 13 – 3 Discharged 🔹 April 12 – 1 new case – TOTAL 54 ↘ April 11 – 4 Discharged 🔸 April 9-11 – 0 new – …
Read More »LIVE: Museveni promises to act tough to stop laxity
Uganda COVID-19 history 🔸 April 8 – 1 new cases – TOTAL 53 🔹 April 7 – 0 new cases – TOTAL 52 🔹 April 6 – 0 new cases – TOTAL 52 🔹 April 5 – 4 new cases – TOTAL 52 🔸 April 4 – 0 new cases …
Read More »Museveni warns errant LDUs, asks Col Nakalema to make arrests
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has vowed to deal harshly with Local Defence Unit personnel and other security agencies who are abusing terms of their deployment to enforce anti COVID-19 measures. President Museveni said that’s it’s illegal to enter people’s homes in the guise of enforcing …
Read More »Three more Coronavirus cases, Uganda now at 48
Uganda COVID-19 🔹 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 – …
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