Tag: COVID-19

There has been a protest in Bududa district where boda boda riders are accusing Police and other security officers of ...

Museveni reportedly gives Kikuubo traders one week to comply with COVID-19 guidelines or face closure

With Ugandans increasingly becoming complacent in the fight against COVID-19 by ignoring all safety measures initially imposed by the government ...

Uganda’s COVID-19 cases rise to 889 with 19 new cases confirmed, 11 are returnees from Afghanistan

Out of the 2,170 samples tested yesterday, the Ministry of Health confirmed 19 new cases taking the total number of ...

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization. COURTESY PHOTO.

WHO warns worst of coronavirus pandemic is “yet to come” because masses have stopped following the guidelines

With the total number of confirmed COVID-19 infections having reached 10 million and the death toll surpassed 500,000, the World Health ...

Pastor asks Gov’t to open churches because fellow pastors are financially struggling

Born-again pastors are crying out to the government to reopen places of worship so that religious activities can resume. According ...

Health Ministry to recognize COVID-19 frontline health workers in campaign dubbed ‘Faces of Care’

A few months before the confirmation of the first COVID-19 case in Uganda in March, the Ministry of Health had ...

LDU officers beat 65-year-old man to death as they enforce curfew directives

As per current COVID-19 prevention guidelines, everyone that is not providing an essential service is supposed to be in their ...

Gov’t to use Mutaasa Kafeero, Park View arcades as pilot study to see if arcades can resume business

As traders are frustrated about government reluctance to issue a directive allowing arcades to resume business, news coming in indicates ...

Only five countries in Africa are yet to register a COVID-19 death, Uganda is one of them