By Frank Kamuntu
The Ministry
of Health has intensified efforts to urge all Ugandans to practice safety
measures against the spread of COVID-19 which include wearing face masks,
washing hands with soap and sanitizers frequently, staying home, maintaining
social distance, avoiding touching your eyes, nose and mouth, plus informing concerned
authorities about any suspected COVID-19 cases.
This comes
after Uganda registered 21 new Coronavirus cases in one day on Thursday, which
is the highest number of COVID-19 confirmed from 1,593 samples of truck drivers,
bringing the number of cases to 160.
The new
cases confirmed include: Ugandans, Kenyans, Tanzanians and South Sudanese who
arrived via Mutukula, Busia and Elegu borders respectively.
Officials
from the Ministry revealed however that of 1,896 samples taken on Thursday to the Uganda Virus Institute (UVRI) and all
303 community samples tested negative for COVID-19.
Despite the
increase in the number of cases, the
Health Ministry reveal that as a result of the concerted efforts of medical personnel
and the National COVID-19 Taskforce, Uganda
has registered 63 recoveries after another
patient healed from COVID-19 at Masaka Regional Referral hospital and was
discharged this week.
During her national address about COVID-19 on Thursday, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister for Health, revealed that Uganda has cases that include; Ugandans, Kenyans, Tanzanians, Burundians, Chinese, Canadian, Rwandese, Congolese, Eritreans, and an Indian .
