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The covid-19 death toll in the country has hit 2,605 as 15 other Ugandans have succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry of Health on Wednesday confirmed 327 new cases from 4,346 samples that were tested on July 26. This brings the country’s cumulative confirmed cases to 93,122 from 1,458,646 total samples that have been tested ...

Recently, the government plunged the country into a second lockdown after a rise in the Covid-19 infections. However, the 42 days of lockdown are soon ending. With a few days left to beat the 42 days, everyone is anticipating how life is going to be with lockdown lifted. The businesses that have been put on hold are now starting to ...

Opposition politician and MP for Bugiri, Asuman Basalirwa has come out to show his disappointment in the way the government handled the COVID-19 situation. He said the government deliberately excluded parliament in the second lockdown measures. A few weeks ago, the President after meeting with the national COVID-19 task force and the Ministry of Health, declared a 42-day lockdown. The ...

MPs on the parliamentary Covid-19 taskforce have faulted the Ministry of Health for hiring private labs to test passengers arriving at Entebbe Airport. On Saturday, MPs visited the airport and met officials from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). In May, health officials set up a Covid-19 testing centre at Peniel Beach hotel located about a kilometre away from the airport. ...

Mbale Regional Referral hospital management has denied claims by the MoH that it gave them eight ambulances. These were apparently donated to help ease transporting patients in the Covid-19 pandemic. Last week, the MoH appeared before MPs led by Jane Ruth Aceng and permanent secretary Dr. Diana Atwine. They claimed that 8 ambulances had been dispatched to Mbale hospital in ...