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Eight month old girl among five new coronavirus cases in Uganda

By Ben Musanje 25th March 2020 Uganda has confirmed five more positive cases of Coronavirus including two of the six Chinese that escaped to Zombo district recently that now makes a total of 14 cases. This news has first been broken by the State Minister for Primary Healthcare Dr. Joyce Moriku Kaducu via her twitter […]

1400 people complete mandatory quarantine safely – Gov’t

By Ben Musanje 25th March 2020 The Director General for Health Services at Uganda Health Ministry Dr Henry Mwebesa has appealed to individuals who travelled through Dubai, Middle East, in the last two weeks, to go for testing.   A total of 574 reported for check up in two days while 1,230 people have been […]

Police, Army establish a joint task force to combat COVID-19

By Ben Musanje 25th March 2020 Police together with the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) and other government agencies have developed a National Joint Task Force called Inter Agency Task Force to combat COVID 19.   Addressing a joint press conference at Naguru, the Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga says that the task force will be […]

Uganda suspends receiving new refugee, asylum seekers

By Charles Katabalwa 25th March 2020   In respect to protect the country from COVID-19 Pandemic, government has suspended receiving new refugees and asylum seekers for a period of 30 days. Addressing journalists at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala today Musa Ecweru, the  Minister of State for Disaster Preparedness said, whereas Uganda has an […]