Uganda now has 100 confirmed coronavirus cases after two more truck drivers from Kenya tested positive on Wednesday, May 6.
The new cases are of Kenyan and Eritrean nationals who entered Uganda via Malaba according to a statement from the ministry of Health. A total of 3,509 were tested and of these, all the 438 community samples tested negative for COVID-19. Confirmed coronavirus cases from cross-border truck drivers now stand at 34 of the total 100 cases.
Kenya's coronavirus cases rose to 582 after 47 new cases and 2 new deaths were registered. In Rwanda, the cases rose to 268 cases after another 7 new cases were registered. South Sudan’s cases are rising fast after another 6 new cases were recorded, rising their confirmed cases to 58.
In total, there were 1,908 new cases and 48 new deaths registered in Africa on Wednesday. Egypt had the continent’s most new cases of the day at 387 and 17 new deaths.
South Africa had 236 new cases and 5 new deaths. In Morocco, there were 189 new cases and 2 new deaths. In Algeria, there were 159 new cases and 6 new deaths. In Cameroon there 161 new cases while Guinea recorded 45 new cases and one new death.
Senegal recorded 104 new cases and one new death. Somali had 38 new cases and one new death while Sudan recorded 74 new cases and four new deaths.
In DR Congo there 92 new cases and one new death. Burkina Faso recorded 41 new cases, Mali 19 new cases, while Guinea Bissau reported 62 new cases and one new death.
Equatorial Guinea reported 124 new cases and one new death. Congo recorded 28 new cases, Sierra Leone 26 new cases and 3 new deaths. In Cape Verde there 5 new cases, 8 new cases in Liberia. In Ethiopia, there were 17 new cases, 7 new cases in Madagascar, 8 new cases in Zambia plus one death.