Tag: COVID-19

Today, May 14, 2020, the Ministry of Health has confirmed 21 new COVID-19 cases in the country, and yes, you ...

Ugandan medical researcher develops an antibody detection test that will deliver COVID-19 results in only five minutes

Ugandan medical researcher Prof Vinand Nantulya has developed an antibody detection test where COVID-19 will be detected in an individual within 5 ...

Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and Kaguta Museveni of Uganda.

East African small and medium businesses to get stimulus package after COVID-19 to help them stay afloat

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has hit all types of businesses, big, medium and small alike, but it is the small ...

Coronavirus may never go away, we should learn to live with it – WHO

As some countries around the world begin to gradually ease lockdown restrictions imposed in a bid to stop the novel ...

All 54 African countries now have Coronavirus after Lesotho confirmed first case today

Lesotho has been the only country in Africa without any confirmed case of COVID-19. However, today Wednesday, Lesotho’s Health Ministry ...

COVID Organics (CVO), the herbal tea from Madagascar said to 'cure' COVID-19.

We are not considering using the Madagascar COVID-19 ‘cure’ until approved by WHO – Health Ministry Spokesperson

In the recent weeks, the talk of a possible COVID-19 cure, a herbal remedy consumed in the form of tea ...

Health Ministry facing shortage of COVID-19 testing kits, now borrowing from Makerere University Hospital

As we speak now, Uganda is among the top 10 countries in Africa that have tested more people for COVID-19, ...

Museveni orders Auditor General to audit MPs who acted as ‘Purchasing Officers’ with Shs20m, claims he never assented to the allocation

President Museveni has written to the Auditor General John Muwanga asking for an audit of the Shs20 million Parliament distributed ...

An LDU officer carries COVID-19 relief food during the first phase of distribution. COURTESY PHOTO.

Police recover seven out of 170 bags of relief food stolen by members of Rukungiri district taskforce