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The government has allowed wife of city businessman Brian Kavuya to fly to Kenya for medical treatment amid the ongoing Coronavirus Lockdown. In a letter to the Permanent Secretaries Ministry Of Health, Internal Affairs and Joint Staff Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), Ambassador Charles Ssentongo said that Mr. Brian Kavuya Passport number AOO198227 is the…
By URN Drivers have raised concerns over failure to observe physical distance guidelines at Face Technologies. In March, the Ministry of Works and Transport closed all driving permit facilities around the country as a precaution to the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). However, the company opened on Tuesday attracting hundreds of drivers who want new…
Government through the Ministry of Health has denied circulating allegations that they engaged into a contract or financial obligations with socialite Shanita Namuyimbwa alias Bad Black over her recorded Covid-19. In an intention to sue, seen by this news website, Bad Black through her lawyers of Musangala Advocates say, she was approached by one Ronex…
The United Nations Population Fund formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities – UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency and ride-hailing company SafeBoda have today launched an e-Shop that will enable users in Kampala and Wakiso districts to order and receive reproductive health commodities at their doorsteps. The “Personal Health Shop,” is…
Uganda’s coronavirus cases have increased to 696 with 11 new infections recorded on Saturday. The results were announced on Sunday morning, indicating that six of the new cases were of truck drivers. The Health Ministry also revealed that one more Frontline worker tested positive bringing their total to 28. They also stated that 33 foreign…
Twelve patients who have recovered from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have today been discharged from Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital. All the recovered patients are long-distance truck drivers who had spent an average of 21 days at the hospital The discharge of the 12 recovered patients comes days after the hospital management stopped admitting more patients…
Gulu Regional Referral Hospital has discharged 34 patients who recovered from COVID-19. Of the 34, 26 are Ugandan truck drivers while eight are foreign truck drivers. They tested positive for the virus from Elegu border point in Amuru district. Dr Paska Apiyo, a physician and the head of case management at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital…
The Uganda Prisons Services has recorded its first coronavirus case in Kayiti prison, Namutumba district. Addressing a daily security briefing at Uganda Media Centre in Kampala, Frank Baine, the spokesperson of Prisons said that the case is a suspect who had previously had contact with a person who tested positive of the virus. Baine said…
A Uganda People’s Defense Forces ‘UPDF’ soldier has tested positive for COVID-19. It is reported the soldier attached at Nakasongola army barracks had returned to the Barracks from pass leave and subjected to a COVID test, at Bombo military barracks. Lieutenant Ibrahim Ssekito, the Nakasongola army barracks spokesperson revealed that the soldier had gone for…
The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni has blasted the Ministry Of Health after revealing that among the 679 cases of Covid19 in Uganda, there are some who were given fake positive results “due to carelessness” of some technicians The president announced the shocking news during a Thursday June, 11, 2020 national budget reading. He however,…
