coronavirus

Uganda has received a donation of 647,080 Moderna Covid-19 vaccine doses from the US government. This is the eighth batch of vaccines received in Uganda since March this year - all donated. To date, Uganda has received 2,153,140 doses of…

The government has confirmed that Uganda has registered the Indian Covid-19 variant B.1.617. Col Dr Henry Kyobe, the Covid-19 incident commander has said the country has now registered five Covid-19 variants including Ugandan, Nigerian,…

The Uganda Broadcasting Corporation has reduced access to its Kampala office for both staff and members of the public after ten people at the media house tested positive for COVID-19. A statement issued today by the media house indicated…

The Chief Political Commissar of the Uganda Police Force, AIGP  Asan Kasingye has tested positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19). He is among the 97 Ugandans who have today tested positive, according to the latest update from the…

Uganda has registered 66 new Covid-19 cases, the highest number ever recorded in a day. The Sunday figure brings the total number of cases to 1, 500. Of the cases registered on Sunday, 30 are alerts from Kampala, six from…

Uganda’s poor public hospitals, doctors’ strikes and corruption scandals make its success in the fight against the new coronavirus all the more unlikely. But the nation of 42 million people has recorded just over 1,200 cases and five…

Uganda has registered another COVID-19 death, bringing the number to five. This comes after a 46-year-old Indian woman and resident of Kibuli, Makindye Divison succumbed to the deadly virus. According to the Ministry of Health's daily…

The Supreme Mufti Sheikh Siriman Kasule Ndirangwa has appealed to the government to re-open places of worship so that believers can jointly seek divine intervention in the battle against COVID-19. He made the call during the celebration…

Mankind has always faced the threat of large-scale death and destruction from disastrous situations. Mention of Pompeii, Krakatoa, Chernobyl, Tsunami in Asia, Ebola in Sierra Leone and DRC, Banda Aceh, and New Orleans evokes powerful images…

Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa was suffering from malaria and died of a heart attack, his family said Sunday, scotching rumours that he succumbed to coronavirus. "Mkapa was found with malaria and he was admitted for…