Oulanyah Speaks As He Readies To Start Work As Parliament Speaker

Parliament Announces Two-Week Shutdown Due To Rising Number Of Covid Infections Within MPs

Posted by: Suubi Anne in Uganda news June 23, 2021

The clerk of the parliament has announced a two week shut down due to escalating cases within the house. The infection rate is now at 17.1% among parliamentary members.

“Parliament like the rest of the country has been affected by the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic with the positivity rate of 17.1%. As a mitigating measure in the prevention of the infection, the administration of parliament in consultation with the office of the Speaker is closing parliament to Hon Members for a period of two weeks in order to disinfect the parliamentary buildings.”

Since the 11th parliament started sitting, there have been MPs missing due to covid. Even during the state of Nation Address, 19 MPs had tested positive for Covid. During the reading of the budget, 150 MPs had been stopped from attending the ceremony. This is because, their results had not come back yet. However, the speaker, Jacob Oulanyah, spoke on their behalf but they sat in their own tent.

During his last address, President Museveni, said the rate at which the virus is increasing is alarming.

“Over the past three weeks, the daily number of people testing positive for Corona has increased from less than 100 to now over 1,700. This represents a 17 fold increase in daily cases. As a result, our epidemic curve is now on the steep rise with increased reports of deaths nationwide.”

Probably expected, but with the way the virus is spreading lately, this shutdown is very vital. The numbers of infections are greatly high.

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