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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.
At least 17 out of the 21 cases were collected at the Elegu point of entry, three were from Mutukula and one from Malaba. The tests were part of 1,071 that were carried out on Sunday. Dr Henry Mwebesa, the Director-General of Health Services says the delay in releasing the results was caused by a late start of testing at the Central Public Health Laboratory.
“Samples from truck drivers had to be sorted appropriately and divided between the Uganda Virus Research Institute and the National Health Laboratory Services by the laboratory teams for quick turn around. Testing at NHLS begun at 7:30 pm yesterday evening hence the delay in reporting results,” Dr Mwebesa said.
He adds that the health ministry is working towards installing Genexpert machines at points of entry in order to ensure that results are released on time. This will make sure that drivers know their COVID-19 status before they are allowed to enter the country.
NHLS is one of eight laboratories that will be testing for COVID-19 in the country. Testing at NHLS will be carried out using the Cobas 8800 which has the capacity to carry out 192 tests per hour. The laboratory yesterday received 15,000 PCR tests.
Let Those Drivers Be Allowed To Cross The Boarders When They Are Covid-19 Free.
Why is it dat da truck drivers are left to enter da country freely wen its not yet confirmed whether dea are sick or not????? Pliz ministry of health watch out dis is a serious case stop risking ugandan’s lives!!!!!!! For God And My Country.
If museven and his cabinent are blind then we are to die of famine, why can’t take the soldiers who are beating pipo 4nothing to border and released! he thinks that we are domants we can’t see
Covid-19 is real that is one thing we should know but why is it drivers were spreader of this virus as lock down keep on adding cases keep on increasing as well. To mi president should take clear measure and follows strictly at border point wid those whose cases were highly reported in oder to fight for covid-19,let citizens be free en follows rules recommended than adding more days while More cases were being reported and the whole Ugandan should have the habit of auto-suggestion that if today happens to be like this how about tomorrow .
For God and My Country
track drivers shoiuld nt be allowed unless when confermed covid 19 frre
let da drivers be tested at da boarder untill da results come out so dat they da boarder
Museveni is after money not pandemic covid 19.he has collected millions and millions of money but i pple are suffering like wakiso district and other districts were they began from(giving food)
this is politics! coz it seems like other surounding countries are seeing Uganda with red eyes i mean they are very jelous and that is why they are sending their sick people to infects GOD fearing Ugandans which wont walk!! FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY!
Covid-19 is real that is one thing we should know but why is it drivers were spreader of this virus as lock down keep on adding cases keep on increasing as well. To mi president should take clear measure and follows strictly at border point wid those whose cases were highly reported in oder to fight for covid-19,let citizens be free en follows rules recommended than adding more days while More cases were being reported and the whole Ugandan should have the habit of auto-suggestion that if today happens to be like this how about tomorrow .
For God and My Country
Museveni knows nothing about the commoners”abantu bawansi” as they term as,He even doesn’t know that private teachers are seriously suffering. Let them eat money but Alexander the Great was burried with hands spread out of the coffin.
Thanks very much our president for fighting covid-19. According to d presidential adress yesterday, to me he could first concetrate on testing of track drivers and see. But now opening schools for candidate classes and yet districts of ugandan territories also hv candidates. How r these students going to b considered and yet there will b no transport means to travel back to their respective schools, colleges and universities. collision in schools is at a high percentage. Thx plse following.
Most important to note is that there is an open risk.
But we do not have obvious internal risk the way I see please president release and monitor for possible escalation.