Uganda has registered 4 new cases of Coronavirus bringing the total number of cases to 18 with president Museveni expressing optimism after most Ugandans that returned from Dubai tested negative for the deadly virus.
President Yoweri Museveni in his statement announced that despite the increase in the number of cases, majority of the Dubai returnees and others from high-risk countries have tested negative.
He said that 104 returnees from Dubai or their associates were tested for the virus and they were all negative, while another 197 people were tested and many of them were returnees from Dubai or other category one countries, only 4 tested positive.
Below is Museveni’s full statement:
To the Countrymen, Countrywomen and Bazzukulu I thank all of you for embracing the measures we announced to control the Corona Virus.
Although it is too early to accurately determine whether we are defeating the virus or not, I have some good news in as far as fighting is concerned. The good news is that yesterday but one the 25th of March, 104 returnees from Dubai or their associates were tested for the virus and they were all negative.
Yesterday the 26th of March, another 197 people were tested and many of them were returnees from Dubai or other category one countries, only 4 tested positive. These 4 had been under institutional quarantine in the various hotels identified by the sub-committee on quarantine. They have been evacuated to Mulago Hospital for treatment. It seems, therefore, that the efforts of identifying by temperature monitoring at the airport, quarantining the people on whom there’s some suspicion and tracing the ones who escaped from the quarantine is working well.
Fortunately, as we can see, many of the people are negative. Another good news is that the majority of the 14 people who are hospitalized at Entebbe, Mulago and Masaka with the virus are responding well to the treatment and seem to be improving.
I will keep you updated.
Signed: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Gen. (rtd) President of Uganda