By Spy Uganda
The Ministry of Health has announced that 8 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed from samples tested on 16th June 2020, bringing the total confirmed cases to 732. Out of 2,52 samples, and the total recoveries stand at 409.
According to the Ministry, Four (4) new cases were among 1,810 samples tested from Points of Entry, while the other Four (4) cases were among 677 samples of alerts and contacts.
Two of the confirmed cases are truck drivers who arrived from Kenya via Malaba Point of Entry while two cases; a turnboy and a clearing agent are from Elegu Point of Entry.
Four of the other confirmed cases are alerts and contacts from previously confirmed cases. They include 2 from Kampala who were under quarantine at the same time of test, 1 from Moyo who was under quarantine at the time of test and 1 traveller who arrived from DTC through a porous border in Kasese and was identified by the community members who alerted our teams. He was immediately put under quarantine.
The Ministry also revealed that a total of sixteen (16) foreign truck drivers (11 Kenyans, 3 Tanzanians, 1 Congolese and 1 South Sudanese tested positive for COVID-19 and were handed back to their respective country of origin. Â
It should however be noted that Uganda has not yet registered any single death from COVID-19.
