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Just moments after Vision Group Chief Executive Officer Robert Kabushenga announced that a staffer at the company had tested positive for Covid-19, news has surfaced that a staffer at another media house, NTV Uganda has tested positive for coronavirus. NTV has not yet released a statement though. The Ministry of Health has
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Security forces in Kira, a Kampala suburb are looking for Focus primary school headteacher for illegally opening up the school even when the ban on schools still stands. The police has revealed in a statement made on August 12 that a primary school (Focus Primarily school) was open and
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South Sudan's health ministry says about 78 frontline healthcare workers have tested positive for Covid-19. One male healthcare worker has died, according to a health official. "It is very unfortunate to mention that we have lost one of the healthcare workers. He used to work at Juba Teaching Hospital, he is one
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Uganda has registered another COVID-19 death pushing the number to three since the disease was first recorded in the country on March 21. The Ministry of Health announced on Friday that the deceased was a 67-year-old Nigerian national and a resident of Kisenyi, a Kampala suburb. "He had symptoms consistent to COVID-19
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Town socialite, SK Mbuga real names Suleiman Kabangala has on Monday been summoned by the police to explain himself on claims that he flouted Covid-19 guidelines on Saturday when he threw a birthday party for his wife, Vivianne. According to the deputy Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, the police saw
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Schools should open as soon as immediately because according to Koboko Municipality Member of Parliament who is also the State Minister for Investment, Evelyn Anite, girls are getting unwanted pregnancies. And the number of girls conceiving keeps growing the longer they stay out of class. Anite revealed last week that over
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Musician Eddy Kenzo is back home after four months away. Kenzo has been stuck in Ivory Coast ever since Uganda declared that borders were to closed to stem the importation of coronavirus. Kenzo has been cursing and lamenting in the course of demanding for his repatriation. He returned on Saturday, 2:00 am
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Members of Parliament from the border districts have asked the government to provide an alternative source of livelihood if it plans to keep the 42 districts under lockdown. MPs said they were disheartened that during his 19th address on the Coronavirus pandemic, the President did not mention anything related to opening
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Uganda Cranes star Derrick Nsimbambi has according to reports trickling in tested positive for coronavirus. Nsibambi who plays for Egyptian side Smouha SC had tests taken during mass testing of all players at the team. Although the club is yet to make an official statement, it is said that another player at
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Headteachers of government-funded schools and owners of private schools have met to consolidate their negotiations to convince the government to partially re-open education institutions. Meeting last week, the headteachers of government schools under their Association of Secondary School Headteachers of Uganda (ASSHU) agreed with their private school counterparts the Federation of
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