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President Museveni is set to address the nation to give an update on the progress that the country has made in the efforts to reduce the spread of the COvid19 pandemic. This was announced by the Senior Presidential Secretary Lindah Nabusayi Wamboka on Tuesday morning. “Kaguta Museveni will address the Nation this
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The National Unity Platform-NUP has condemned the police ban on distribution of food to vulnerable people during the lockdown. On Monday, police spokesman Fred Enanga said the distribution is likely to lead to the spread of the coronavirus. He advised all people distributing food to stop and take the food to
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The Senior Superintendent of Police-SSP Norman Musinga, who is the Kampala Metropolitan Traffic Police Commander has ordered police officers to pull-off number plates of vehicles without travel permits. The mostly targeted vehicles are those parked on city streets, shopping centres and private parking. Musinga’s directive is in response to President Yoweri Kaguta
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Three Uganda People’s Defense Force-UPDF soldiers are in trouble in Busia district for allegedly extorting money from residents in the guise of enforcing the COVID-19 preventive measures. They are Odongo Oragi No. RA 207941, Thomas Omagye No. RA 254844 and Patrick Olinga No. RA 254872, all attached to Nalwire UPDF
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The news of the death of Makerere University Biosystems Engineering Professor Noble Ephraim Banadda hit the country so hard especially those from the institution and those specifically from the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences. Prof Banadda who headed the Department of Agriculture and Bio systems engineering in Makerere succumbed to Covid19
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The Soroti Regional Referral Hospital COVID-19 Unit has successfully delivered a second COVID-19 patient within one week. According to Dr. Wilson Etolu, an official at the hospital, the two deliveries have been conducted in the space of one week and both were transfers from the districts of Kapelebyong and Pallisa. Dr. Etolu
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Gulu Regional Referral Hospital has turned the antenatal care unit into a new Covid-19 treatment centre. The hospital has for the last three days restricted antenatal services to pregnant women with complications. Dr Norah Nakato, the hospital principal senior nursing officer says that the decision was reached following overwhelming demand for space.
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With over a total population of over 5 million Ugandan children at risk of being forced to work as families are pushed towards extreme poverty as a result of the second COVID-19 lockdown imposed on the 18th June 2021, hundreds of children aged below 15 years in Soroti have been
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The Delta COVID-19 variant, first identified in India, has already been detected in 96 countries, 11 more than last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its weekly epidemiological update on Wednesday. The Delta variant, also referred to as a “double mutant” because it carries two mutations, is 55 percent
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New rankings by World Statistics website Worldomenter have placed Uganda among the top countries that are managing the Covid19 pandemic better globally. The country which is currently undergoing the second total lockdown after the emergence of the Delta variant of the Covid19 virus has so far recorded only 989 deaths from
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