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The Ugandan government has insisted it will not evacuate students who are stuck in Chinese city, Wuhan, which is the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus disease. On Wednesday MPs appealed for evacuation of Ugandans especially students in China Hon. Latif Sebaggala (Indep. Kawempe North) raised a matter of national importance during a
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A total of 120 people have been asked to stay in isolation for a period of two weeks after being linked with coronavirus. According to Emmanuel Ainebyona, the health ministry spokesperson the people have not yet shown any symptoms of coronavirus, and as such, they have not been quarantined. “We have a
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Lawmakers have appealed for the evacuation of Ugandans especially students in China in the midst of the deadly coronavirus in Wuhan province. Hon. Latif Sebaggala (Indep., Kawempe North) raised a matter of national importance during a plenary sitting on 11 February 2020, saying that he has received messages from students who
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Health Minister Dr Ruth Aceng has announced that her ministry has quarantined 100 people who recently travelled from China to Uganda. The Minister was briefing the media at the Uganda Media Centre about the country's preparedness to combat coronavirus. The minister said out of the 100, 57 are Ugandans while 43
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Kenya will evacuate its students trapped in Wuhan, the Chinese epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said. However, President Kenyatta said Nairobi was putting in place stringent measures to ensure the virus does not enter Kenya. QUARANTINED “We are also working; because we have got a good number of our
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President Yoweri Museveni has directed the Ministry of Health to conduct an aggressive public awareness campaign as one of the measures of preventing and controlling the outbreak of Coronavirus. “I now understand this disease. I’m going to write about it so that the public is sensitized on how to prevent it”
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The Government has asked Ugandans who are in China to stay there to prevent any possible transmission of Coronavirus. A number of Ugandan citizens, mostly students are stuck in China and yearning to get out since the outbreak of Coronavirus. Over 304 people in China are reported to have died from the
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The death toll of the coronavirus has risen to 170 and with a confirmed case in Tibet, the virus has now spread to every region in mainland China. Chinese health authorities have said there were 7,711 confirmed cases in the country as of 29 January. Infections have also spread to at least
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