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Kasese District has registered another community covid-19 case raising the number to 4 since March.
Residents said that Covid 19 cases are slowly increasing in the area due to laxity of people not minding about the guidelines set by the ministry of health.
Security team and health workers made a joint operation to trace a covid-19 patient who was hiding in Mpondwe – lhubiriha town council near the Uganda-DR Congo border in vain.
“It is true we have a Covid-19 case and we have organized an ambulance to pick him. We have already known where he has been hiding in Mpondwe -lhubiriha town council” the District Health Officer, Dr Yusuf Baseke said on Wednesday afternoon.
He said that this case becomes the third Covid 19 cumulative case while the fourth is one who escaped from Kakumiro in June.
“We currently have three cumulative cases without that one who escaped from Kakumiro so if you add him, the number totals to four” the doctor added.
However Ester Masika of Mpondwe said that if the trend remains like that, then the situation may go out of hand.
“We (residents) of Mpondwe no longer mind about issues of covid 19 to the extent that many attend burials which was stopped by the president, i am scared that we may die many” Masika said.
In June, the first case was a resident of Mumbuzi village in Nyakasanga II ward, Kasese town but he was tested in Kakumiro district on June 17.
It is alleged that he was a driver who had been delivering road construction equipment in the region.
One Janet Biira, a resident has expressed fears that many more people could have sneaked into Kasese district and were silently transmitting the infection to other people saying that security should be on high alert.
“I am scared now that men have started coming back to their homes, this puts women and children at high risk since they can’t deny their family head into the home” Biira said.
All covid 19 cases in the region are managed at Fort Portal regional referral hospital.
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