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📌318 new cases
🔺 Amuru Prisons- 154 (153 inmates, 1 prison staff)
🔺 136 contacts and alerts
✳ 65 Kampala
✳ 14 Kiryandongo
✳ 9 Gulu
✳ 9 Mbarara
✳ 8 Kitgum
✳ 8 Arua
✳ 7 Wakiso
✳ 4 Mbale
✳ 4 Buikwe
✳ 2 Masaka
✳ 1 Bugiri, Jinja, Luweero, Manafwa, Masindi, Mityan
🔺 8 truck drivers
🔺 20 health workers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |Â The Ministry of Health has today announced 318 new COVID-19 cases in Uganda, making it the highest total recorded in a single day since the start of the pandemic.
Hit hardest is Amuru Prison, where 153 inmates have been found to be positive with the Coronavirus.
Amidst the rising cases, the Ministry of Health has also mentioned several institutions in Kampala including Malaysia Furnishing, Royal Pharma, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, IGG, KCCA,Toyota, NRM Secretariat, Eagle Holdings, Megha Industries, media houses New Vision, NBS,NTV,BBS and private hospitals, which have reported clusters.
“This highlights the need to ensure that workplaces strictly observe the Standard Operating Procedures and Infection, Prevention and Control measures to limit the spread of COVID-19,” Minister of Health Ruth Aceng said.
Uganda has also recorded 1 COVID-19 death, a 49 year old male from Mbale district bringing the total cumulative COVID-19 deaths to 20.
The cumulative number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Uganda is 2,166.
Case of Amuru Hospital
The Ministry of health instituted an investigation after one of the prisoners at Amuru prisons presented with COVID-19 like signs and symptoms last week.
“In light of the above, the Ministry of Health undertook further investigations in Amuru Prisons. Out of the 205 inmates, 153 inmates tested positive. Out of the 28 prison staff, 1 tested positive for COVID-19,” said Aceng.
The Ministry working with Uganda Prisons Services has since relocated all the confirmed 152 inmates to Gulu Central Prison which is acting as an auxiliary isolation facility.The prison staff is admitted in Gulu Regional Referral Hospital.
The inmates are currently being attended to by a combined team from Mulago National Referral Hospital and Gulu RRH supporting the Uganda Prisons Services health team for appropriate management.
The government of Uganda has done a great job in controlling the spread of the COVID 19 among the population.
Well done the team guiding the nation on how to mitigate the pandemic headed by the president, the Ministry of health, and the rest of the team.
Given the unwillingness of most people not to implement the guidelines to be followed to minimize the spread of the pandemic, it would be suicidal as a nation to open the nation’s schools and places of worship.
You can not open schools and leave the places of worship closed as their social infrastructure is identical for they both gather large numbers of people together in limited social distancing environments.
There are many claiming persecution by the continued shut down of the places of worship for individual benefit, It is suicidal to open these up given our bravado in playing dice with death.
We need a more serious lockdown despite the politicking that will be based around it.
Politicizing the pandemic standard operating procedures is criminal and is murder.
Failure to deliver posho & beans,masks even when parliament had released billions of shillings and other shenanigans of not delivering the promised radios,falsely quaranting people in hotels, double standards that allowed NRM candidates to campaign while stopping the opposition and a long history of fake promises by Museveni and his government has significantly diminished govt credibility that no sensible citizen can believe anything govt communicates.
Way forward, Govt could handle COVID-19 the way it handles other diseases like Hiv, Malaria etc test & treat only those that show up as sick at the health facilities and hospitalize those that need hospitalizing not this business of forcing asymptomatic Covid-19 patients into hospital stays. Mild cases could be managed from home.
Govt doesn’t need to give daily Covid-19 updates, as this seems of no value but creating unnecessary panic besides Ministry of Health doesn’t update the country on a daily basis of numbers tested, admitted, died, recovered of Hiv, pneumonia, Malaria and the Uganda is not any worse off.
True Covid is a threat but 16 pregnant women dying daily is more alarming than 318 Covid cases when 243 are in localized in one place. It still can be contained without sending alarmist signals and creating panic.
One wonders what 242 are doing in an Amuru prison and how big is the prison. Is it practical for this prison to observe the SOPS
infact politics now is driving the road to another useless lockdown…why aint da govnt not taking necessary precautions against da dizz..i can say dat covid~19 is not da strongest pandemic dat has ever eliminated mankind..fine bt da lyks of publicising new cases daily wzout mentioning the numbers tested shows govt weaknesses of threatening da public instead of making da public proud of da govnt….
campaign pressure,autocratism is now digging its way back since it was burried in early 1970’s