The victim is a wife to a Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF soldier, who travelled to the barracks to nurse her ailing husband on Tuesday. The soldier whose identities have been withheld is reported to have suffered a mental breakdown and was admitted in the barrack’s health facility.
A positive case of COVID-19 has been recorded in Magamaga Military Barracks in Mayuge district.
The victim is a wife to a Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF soldier, who travelled to the barracks to nurse her ailing husband on Tuesday.
The soldier whose identities have been withheld is reported to
have suffered a mental breakdown and was admitted in the barrack’s health facility.
The victim earlier informed the force’s health team that she has been staying in Bombo military barracks. However, intelligence reports later indicated that although
her place of abode is Bombo, the call for nursing the sick
husband found her in Singo Barracks where she had stayed for close to 15 days.
The UPDF spokesperson in Busoga sub-region, George Musinguzi says that the couple was quarantined together and
both their samples were taken. The soldier has tested negative, while the wife, tested positive for COVID-19
He adds that the district surveillance team received the
victim’s results late but she was successfully evacuated from the barracks and transferred
to the Jinja Hospital Isolation Unit for further management.
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Musinguzi further says that the victim’s contacts have been
quarantined at the barracks premises but he declined to divulge into details.
Meanwhile, Emmy Mitala, the Mayuge Deputy Resident District Commissioner says that two other positive cases were retrieved from Bwonda
landing site and Busakila village respectively.
Mitala adds that movements have been restricted along the
district’s landing sites with an aim of containing the spread of COVID-19.
