![]() “Public transport from district to district suspended for 42 days from Jand Interdistrict travel banned for 42 days. At the same time, a total of 935,184 vaccine doses were administered as of June 23. 18th.06.2021 All cross board boundaries and inter district movement of public transport and private transportation is banned for 42 days. This means that the number of Covid-19 deaths has seen a 10-fold increase since the first case of Covid-19 was confirmed in Uganda in March 2020. “Marriage ceremonies to continue with maximum 20 people under strict observation of SOPs.” Uganda Enters Into total Lockdown News National Published on JBy Uganda Today SUMMARY OF PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON COVID-19. Museveni also noted that non agricultural activities like factory, construction, shopping malls, supermarkets, taxi parks are to continue operating with Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs) observation and failure to comply within a week they will be suspended. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni addresses the nation 18 th.06.2021 on the increased rate at which Covid19 is spreading resulting 542 deaths, scarcity of hospital beds and oxygen thus the need for a total lockdown to reduce the spread of Corona Virus. “Public or cultural gatherings except for the sitting of the cabinet, legislature are suspended for 42 days,” he added. “All teachers must vaccinate before reporting back to school after those 42 days,” Museveni noted. In his state of the nation address on 6th June, 2021, Museveni ordered for an immediate closure of all schools and institutions of higher Education for 42 days as one of the ways of containing the surging cases of the second wave of Covid-19. 7 5 Model-based simulations for Uganda suggest that the 95 confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number R t has been lower than 1.0 since July 2021. On the other hand, Uganda is running short of medical oxygen as it grapples with the ravaging pandemic.ĭiana Atwine, permanent secretary at the ministry of health, said in an interview with the media on Monday that there was a high demand of oxygen due to the surge in numbers of Covid-19 patients in High Dependency Units and Intensive Care Units (ICU) across the country. The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. Due to the worrying situation, a section of citizens have pleaded with the President to impose a total lockdown in order to contain the situation. The government announced on Friday that Uganda would be under a total lockdown for the next 42 days as part of its strategy to stop the spread of COVID-19. ![]()
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