Officials from the Ministry of Health have today inspected teams preparing for Nets distribution in Kiboga that will start this Sunday. The team was led by Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Dr. Diana Atwine and Director General Health Services Dr. Henry Mwebesa. “With DG Dr. Henry Mwebesa, we met with the teams preparing for nets […]
The distribution of Mosquito nets Wave 2 by the government is underway in 28 districts across the country. The general public is requested to register and pick their mosquito net when the teams come to their houses. The Wave 2 kicked off on 9th August and will go on until 21st August. State Minister for […]
The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health Dr. Diana Atwine has today afternoon witnessed discharge of 44 COVID-19 patients from Entebbe Grade B Hospital. The 44 tested negative for the disease twice. The Patients are 43 truck drivers and 1 community contact. This brings the total number of recoveries to 486. “Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health […]
The Ministry of Health Uganda has confirmed 32 new cases of COVID-19, the deadly disease caused by Coronavirus. Results from samples tested on 01 June 2020 confirmed 32 new COVID-19 cases bringing total number of COVID-19 cases in Uganda to 489. 19 of the new cases are truck drivers. 14 from Elegu, 2 from Malaba, […]
The UK Government announces its support to the Government of Uganda’s efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 disease and to respond to the impacts of SARS-COV-2 coronavirus. We are supporting Government of Uganda (GoU) at both national and district levels. We have provided £500,000 to the World Health Organisation (WHO) to strengthen testing, surveillance […]
The Ministry of Health has on 20 May 2020 confirm 10 new COVID-19 cases. 9 new cases are truck drivers while 1 case is a contact to a confirmed truck driver. Following a Presidential Directive of deducting all foreign truck drivers from Uganda’s case count, the confirmed COVID-19 cases now stand at 145. 11 foreign […]
The Ministry of Health has confirmed 43 new COVID-19 positive cases from 1838 samples of truck drivers at border points of entry. All 720 samples taken from the community tested negative for COVID-19. The total number of tests done today are 2558 at Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), The total number of COVID confirmed cases […]
The Minister of Health, Hon. Jane Ruth Aceng and State Minister for Health in charge of General Duties, Hon. Robinah Nabbanja have today commissioned the 1st Port Health laboratory in Uganda. It is a gene expert laboratory with 2 machines and capacity to run 64 samples per hour. All truck drivers arriving via Mutukula point […]
The Ministry of Health has confirmed that Uganda has registered 4 new cases of COVID-19 taking tally to 126. Today, 12 May, 2020, 4 new COVID-19 cases confirmed from 1,478 samples of truck drivers. This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases to 126 in Uganda. The new cases include: 2 Ugandans, 1 Kenyan who […]
The Ministry of Health has confirmed registering 13 new cases of COVID-19. The results of samples tested on 8th May, 2020 confirmed 13 new COVID-19 cases from 2,421 samples of truck drivers. Out of the 13 new cases, 7 are Kenyans, 4 are Ugandans while 2 are Tanzanians. The process of Tracking them has commenced […]
