Tag: COVID-19

June 21, 2020

When COVID-19 forced Ugandans into full lockdown a few months ago, some musicians also decided to lock down their pens ...

POST COVID-19 ERA: Victoria University to launch online education

When Uganda announced a partial lockdown that involved the closure of schools and learning institutions due to COVID-19 pandemic, it ...

URSB donates Shs20m to the National COVID-19 Taskforce

Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) has donated sh20 million to the National Taskforce to fight COVID-19. So far, Uganda has confirmed ...

Events promoter Balaam Barugahara with Shanitah Namuyimbwa aka Bad Black and her lawyers.

Bad Black runs to Balaam to help her meet Museveni and get her COVID-19 advert paid

Motor-mouthed socialite Shanitah Namuyimbwa alias Bad Black might have got another alternative of ensuring that her contested COVID-19 advert is ...

Kira Municipality MP Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda. COURTESY PHOTO.

Elections could cause more deaths in Uganda than COVID-19 if not handled well – Hon Ssemujju Nganda

Earlier this week, the Electoral Commission released a revised 2021 Election Roadmap that imposed a ban on public rallies as ...

Entebbe Grade B Hospital health workers have not received COVID-19 risk allowances for two months

Entebbe Grade B Hospital was the first hospital in Uganda to receive the first COVID-19 patient in Uganda on March ...

Finance Minister Matia Kasaija. COURTESY PHOTO.

Finance Minister Kasaija says the different figures he read in the Budget are a consolidation of loans Gov’t received from IMF, World Bank, ADB

On Tuesday, June l6, 2020, the Chairperson of the Budget Committee of Parliament made a statement on the Floor of ...

When we treat and heal, no one talks about it. When anything goes wrong, they forget the lives saved – says Health Ministry PS Diana Atwine as Entebbe Hospital discharges 44 patients

Entebbe Grade B Hospital has today discharged 44 people who previously tested positive for COVID-19 after recovering. Amongst the discharged ...

Uganda’s COVID-19 cases and recoveries rise side by side as nine new infections confirmed, two people discharged