Kampala, Uganda — President Yoweri Museveni will address the nation at 8pm on Saturday on the status of the ongoing 42-day lockdown and measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic. He on July 18 reinstated some of last year’s tough COVID-19 measures, including a lockdown.
According to President Museveni, the measures were needed to address the fast rate at which the disease was spreading. Due to an increase at the rate at which the disease was spreading, dwindling oxygen supplies in hospital and longer recovery times, the President said that country’s best option was to prevent spread of the disease.
His address will come a few days after that of Health Minister Ruth Aceng, who will today provide an update on measures to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. Aceng’s address will set the tone for action that the President will take.
Uganda as at July 24 had 92,724 cumulative confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 2,579 deaths registered.
The new measures came ten days after the president closed schools and banned cross border movement.
Read the original article on Independent (Kampala).
AllAfrica publishes around 800 reports a day from more than 130 news organizations and over 500 other institutions and individuals, representing a diversity of positions on every topic. We publish news and views ranging from vigorous opponents of governments to government publications and spokespersons. Publishers named above each report are responsible for their own content, which AllAfrica does not have the legal right to edit or correct.
Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica. To address comments or complaints, please Contact us.
AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa – aggregating, producing and distributing 800 news and information items daily from over 130 African news organizations and our own reporters to an African and global public. We operate from Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington DC.
Get the latest in African news delivered straight to your inbox
By submitting above, you agree to our privacy policy.
Almost finished…
We need to confirm your email address.
To complete the process, please follow the instructions in the email we just sent you.
There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later.