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Kenyan trucker with COVID-19 symptoms dies in Gulu
A Kenyan truck driver who was admitted to St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor in Gulu district after presenting with Covid-19 symptoms has died. The 59-year-old trucker was admitted on Saturday after being...
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Husband reports wife to police over drug theft
A female cleaner at Kisubi hospital has been arrested on allegations of drug theft after being reported by her husband. Stella Mulobole was arrested on Monday after her husband, who, preferred...
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Burundi moves ahead with May election amid coronavirus outbreak
The race to become Burundi's next president is officially underway as authorities proclaim God will protect citizens from the novel coronavirus, which has already infected 11 people in the East African...
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President Museveni finally signs Sugar Bill into law
President Yoweri Museveni has assented to the controversial Sugar Bill putting an end to the push and pull he had with parliament. The president had earlier on declined to assent to the bill, saying...
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No new cases as Mulago discharges all its coronavirus patients
For the second day running, Uganda recorded no new coronavirus cases on Tuesday after all the 2,400 samples tested negative for COVID-19. The country also saw its COVID-19 recoveries rise to 52 after...
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MPs fell in a trap of Shs 10bn coronavirus money - Museveni
For allocating themselves Shs 10 billion in government's Shs 304bn supplementary budget to fight the coronavirus pandemic, MPs fell into a trap, President Yoweri Museveni has said. Addressing the...
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Covid-19: Can culture help slow it down?
History shows that culture has overtime played a significant complementary role in rolling back national or global pandemics. Ignoring it in designing public health measures to deal with Covid-19...
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Mpuuga: Why I rejected Shs 20m
The appropriation by parliament of Shs 10bn or Shs 20m to every MP recently to ostensibly assist lawmakers fight the spread of the novel coronavirus has thrust the House into a huge public firestorm...
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Madagascar citizens found without masks forced to clean streets
Police in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, are enforcing new rules requiring citizens to wear coronavirus masks outside their homes by forcing violators to clean city streets. The new rule went into...
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With schools shut, learners turn to TV lessons. Are they working?
Schools are shut. So is the country. But teachers have tried to stay on the job despite the national lockdown. They are trying to teach remotely on television and on phone. But is it working? Martha...
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Coronavirus can circulate in air for 2 hours - study
A study published in the journal Nature Research shows that the coronavirus can stay and rotate within the air for two hours in crowded or places that have limited ventilation.In a study carried out in...
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Court orders MPs to return Shs 10bn to public coffers
The High court has ordered all MPs who benefited from the Shs 10 billion allocation to either refund it or hand it over to the national or district Covid-19 task forces. Justice Michael Elubu issued...
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Tanzania’s coronavirus cases soar to 480
Tanzania has registered 196 new coronavirus cases and six more deaths to become East Africa’s most infected country. Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa announced today that 174 new cases were registered in...
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Security names big lockdown violators
President Museveni has used several on-air appearances to teach Ugandans how Covid-19 is spread and avoided and also issued 35 lockdown orders to slow the spread of the disease but it seems his message...
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Jinja RDC Sakwa released on bail
Jinja resident district commissioner (RDC) Eric Sakwa has been released on bail.Sakwa alongside two others were charged with three counts of manslaughter, theft and malicious damage stemming from the...
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US announces coronavirus treatment breakthrough
An experimental drug has proven effective in treating COVID-19 patients, the head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr Anthony Fauci, announced Wednesday. “Remdesivir has...
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Uganda coronavirus cases rise to 81
Uganda's coronavirus cases have risen to 81 after two new cases were confirmed on Wednesday at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI). The two new cases are of a 24-year-old Ugandan male and a...
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1,000 HIV patients in Kwania abandon treatment over lack of food
At least some 1,012 people living with HIV/Aids in Kwania district, northern Uganda have abandoned treatment.According to records from the district health department, there are more than 70,000 people...
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Uganda starts exporting ARVs to South Africa
Quality Chemicals Limited, Cipla in Luzira has received approval from the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority to start supplying Antiretroviral (ARV) HIV drugs to South Africa.According...
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Vision Group cuts staff salaries by up to 60%
Vision Group, the publishers of New Vision and Bukedde newspapers, will cut staff salaries by up to 60 per cent starting next month due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19).A notice from the...
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