Uganda news

Ministry of Health has announced highest covid cases of Covid ever recorded in Uganda in one day. The results pinned show 1,438 registered cases of covid out of 8,478 tested people. The country besides dealing with the first variant from China is now dealing with variants of the same from India, South Africa among others. These variants, unfortunately, spread much ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has asked President Yoweri Museveni to forward the list of new cabinet ministers. He asked for the list on Thursday because he had not yet received it. The request came in after the presentation of the budget by the finance state minister-designated Amos Lugoloobi. ‘’I have not yet received the list of ministers,’’ the ...

Rwanda has become the latest country to suspend it’s services in Uganda following an upsurge in the covid 19 cases. It should be recalled that the United Arab Emirates earlier this week suspended a number of flights from African countries Uganda inclusive. Earlier this week President Museveni declared that most public sectors be put on hold partially for 42 days. ...

On Wednesday night, police raided what was Levels Lounge and now Levels kitchen after someone tipped them off that some people were having a party. The President has not allowed bars to work officially. Unfortunately, this didn’t seem to matter to Levels Lounge who had a lot of people and even after curfew. A number of people are still in ...

Pressure on the government to find more covid-19 vaccines for Ugandans is intensifying as the previous batch will run out this week. By the end of May, the government transferred $11m (Shs 38.7b) to the United Nations Children’s Fund. This is for procurement of vaccines through COVAX.However, the 20% funded by Global Alliance for Vaccines and immunization (GAVI)/ COVAX has ...