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The coronavirus pandemic has taken another toll as it has claimed a lawmaker earlier today. Woman representative of Pallisa District, Faith Alupo has passed on after she reportedly contracted the coronavirus. This makes her first MP in the country to succumb to the virus in Uganda. The MP passed on from
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Uganda's Covid-19 death toll has hit 15, the Ministry of Health has announced. According to a statement by the Ministry, "The two are both Uganda males aged 63 and 33 years old." The two had been admitted at Rubaga hospital with signs and symptoms consistent with Covid19." With the growing number of deaths,
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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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Motor-vehicle company Toyota Uganda has closed its Kampala main branch after three of their staff tested positive for Covid-19. The company released a statement saying that some of the staff presented mild symptoms such as flu and when they were tested, their results turned out positive. According to the statement, signed by
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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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As the country continues to return back to some sort of normalcy, the government has made plans to have airports re-opened but with standard operating procedures (S.O.Ps). Ministry of Health's Permanent Secretary, Dr Diana Atwine, revealed on Monday, August 3 that the ministry was in talks with scientists to find necessary
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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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Two staffers at the National Resistance Movement Secretariat (NRM) have tested positive for coronavirus just a day after the President, H.E Yoweri Museveni visited the secretariat in Kyadondo. This was revealed by the NRM Secretary-general, Justine Kasule Lumumba on Wednesday. Lumumba says the results were confirmed this morning and the patients have
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Police in Kampala has arrested fifteen people who were Tuesday afternoon found drinking alcohol during the day at Friends bar in Nakasero. This was revealed by Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango via his official Twitter account. “Police have raided Friends Bar in Nakasero, Kampala and arrested 15 people who were drinking
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