Tag Archives: Covid

A sub-variant of the Omicron coronavirus strain has been detected in 57 countries according to the World Health Organization. Apparently, according to studies conducted, the new sub-variant could even be more infectious than the original version. The fast-spreading and heavily mutated variant has rapidly become the dominant variant worldwide. However, officials first detected it in Southern Africa about 10 weeks ...

A section of health Activists have come out and condemned government for violating health profession values during Covid 19. They said this during a virtual town hall meeting. The activists disagreed with the fact vaccination has now apparently become mandatory. There are public offices and places one can’t walk into unless they have received the vaccination. Eva Mugisa, a pharmacist, ...

A few days from now, Uganda will be celebrating 59 years of Independence. However, just like last year, even now the country is still under Lockdown. Much as transport may be open and other sectors working, public gatherings are still so much prohibited. Trends of celebration have been changed since the coming of Covid because there is not much safety ...

Local singer Desire Luzinda who is now based in the US has come out to give advice to parents out there to keep an eye on the girl child. The singer said that ever since the COVID 19 pandemic broke out, teenage pregnancy has really spiraled out of control. “Since the outbreak of coronavirus, teenage pregnancy has really highly increased. ...

Latest reports from the Ministry of Health indicate that Covid-19 Cases have gone down amidst rumours of the break out of a third wave soon. Cases have dropped by 10% apparently. Between September 3 and September 9, a total of 830 cases of Covid-19 infections were reported against 24,460 samples tested. Similarly, positivity rate for samples tested declined from 3.4 ...