Over the years, believers from pentecostal churches have convened at Kasana Playground in Luwero town for a night of prayer that starts on 31 December transitioning through New Years Day. The Anglican and Catholic Faithful have also been spending the night in their respective Churches, praying as they usher in the New Year.
According to Baine, allowing religious gatherings will lead to people converging and increase the chances of spreading the virus. He says the clerics in prison facilities will be the ones to handle mass on Christmas since prisons are still effectively out of bounds to everyone including visitors.
According to Samson Olaki Okare, the District Education Officer of Kapelebyong, the schools are still bushy, lack COVID-19 prevention messages, hand washing facilities among others.
The ED, Badagawa, expressed worry that politicians' ignoring SOPs will increase the Covid-19 prevalence in Uganda and the fight will be longer than it should have been, leading to a prolonged slowdown in the economy.
Emmanuel Ainebyona the Spokesperson of Ministry of Health said the journalists who have been found positive are on treatment but recovering from the virus.
The change came after more and more truck drivers tested positive to coronavirus disease –COVID-19, pushing Uganda’s caseload to 122 in recent weeks. Many of these had entered the country through Malaba from Kenya and Mutukula from Tanzania and allowed to proceed to their destinations before the release of their COVOD-19 results.
Six of the eight cases are truck drivers while the remaining two were picked from the community during the rapid assessment survey that was launched by the Health Ministry to determine the extent of community transmission of the viral respiratory disease.
While delivering his Easter Message the Luweero Diocesan Bishop Eridard Kironde Nsubuga said that the World is facing turbulent times over COVID 19 pandemic but Christians should trust God to overcome the crisis.
The ministry of health spokesperson Emmanuel Ainebyoona says they have negotiated a deal with the hotel owners to ensure that all the people quarantined feel at home
The Director-General of Health Services Dr Henry Mwebesa says that schools do not need to stop parents from visiting their children. He adds that the cancelling of school visitations is an exaggerated reaction to the disease because to date, there is no confirmed case of coronavirus in Uganda.
