Tag Archives: COVID-19

The Danish Government has extended additional financial support of $1,000,000 through World Health Organisation (WHO) to Ministry of Health to support the COVID-19 response. The grant will be used to procure test kits and additional protective gear for frontline health workers in the response. “Uganda has a great need for testing kits and this grant comes as a boost to ...

COVID-19 cases in Uganda have reached 763 following the eight new positive cases that were confirmed on Friday (19th June 2020). They are part of the 1,850 samples from different points of entry, contacts and community alerts. Check also: 7 Cargo Truck Drivers With Coronavirus Escape Into Communities According to the statement released by the ministry of health on Saturday morning, ...

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has donated medical items worth millions to covid fight that will provide additional capacity development support to Ministry of Health (MoH) under the on-going JICA’s technical cooperation code named  “Project on Improvement of Health Services through Health Infrastructure Management  II”, (“5S-CQI-TQM” project), in the fight against the global novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. According to ...

Health Ministry in Uganda tweeted a statement on Saturday indicating that eight new people tested positive for coronavirus, making a total number of positive cases to 694. The ministry added that a total number of 199 people whose samples previously tested positive for the deadly virus surprisingly recovered and discharged from different Hospitals across the country. “Results from samples tested ...

During an interview with Journalists, the Health Minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng said that people are no longer following preventive measures. That means we may move to stage four. In such a situation, to avoid mass deaths, it may be necessary to consider another lockdown. Here are some of the comments from Facebook fans 1). Cos u people in the ...