covid-19

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a 36-month arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) for Uganda in an amount equivalent to SDR722 million (200 percent of quota or about US$1 billion) to…

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will today evening at 8pm address the nation about the current Covid-19 situation in Uganda. The President recently issues guidelines and institutes a partial lockdown but the persistent rise in Covid-19…

Uganda has registered 25 deaths, the highest ever recorded in a day, bringing the total number of Covid-19 victims in the country to 459. The Ministry of Health data shows that tests carried out on June 13 indicate that the country…

Uganda will on Wednesday this week receive an additional 175,200 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from the WHO/GAVI led COVAX facility. According to the Ministry of Health spokesperson, Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the vaccines will reach the…

I wish to share this personal story and people in government and particularly in the Education sector should walk out of this unending slumber. During the first lockdown, our children were subjected to stay home for a year, after which…

Hundreds of Ugandans on Monday turned up for the COVID-19 vaccination at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds. The Ministry of Health transferred the vaccination exercise from its head office to Kololo Independence Grounds in the wake of the rising…

By Samuel Sejjaaka Last week my colleagues and I were honoured with an invitation to the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi to share with government communicators on best practice and the need for partnerships in media…

The government is considering a second lockdown as a radical measure to break the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic that has so far killed 359 people, and left at least 521 fighting for their lives. Mulago National Referral Hospital and…

By Rachel Nansikombi In what seems to be an increasingly strained relationship between the media and the security forces, one thing seems to be clear, only one side of the story gets heard or seen. This clearly played out in the…

The World Health Organization issued a grim warning on Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be "far more deadly", as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped. "We're on track…