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Uganda registers 28 new cases for coronavirus as the East African country’s total number of confirmed cases on Wednesday (27th/May/2020) hit 281.
The twenty eight new cases are among the 2,004 samples that got tested at Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL) and Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI).
Out of these, twenty one are cargo truck drivers who arrived from South Sudan via Elegu border entry point whereas the other 7 are contacts to previously confirmed cargo truck drivers, who had been placed under quarantine at the time of test.
Today,27 May,2020, 28 new COVID-19 cases confirmed. Total confirmed cases are now 281.
🔺21 new cases are truck drivers who arrived from South Sudan via Elegu while 7 cases are contacts to previously confirmed truck drivers.
The contacts were under quarantine at the time of test— Ministry of Health- Uganda (@MinofHealthUG) May 27, 2020
According to the Health service Director General, 7 cargo truck drivers have been denied entry in Uganda following Museveni’s instructions where he said that we should not treat foreign positive cases. The 7 positive foreign truck drivers include 1 Burundian, 1 Eritrean, 1 Congolese and four Tanzanians.
All the 548 samples from the community and their contacts tested negative.
The pearl of Africa has so far registered 69 recoveries of coronavirus and no fatalities.
Check also;
- COVID-19 Cases In Uganda Rises To 175 After 15 Samples Test Positive
- Uganda Registers Highest Number Of Covid-19 Cases A Single Day
- US Records Over 20,000 Covid-19 Cases On Sunday
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