Dr Mathew Emer, the Apac District Health Officer says locking the area that consists of over 5,000 residents in the nine villages will help the medical team trace over 100 contacts to the six confirmed cases.
Apac
District Covid-19 taskforce has ordered for the partial lockdown of Amun
parish, Apoi Sub County after six residents in the area tested positive for
Covid-19.
The six were community cases whose samples were
picked on Thursday last week. According to results released from the Central
Public Health Laboratory, the positive cases are contacts of 3 confirmed
positive cases who are staff of The Aids Support Organization-TASO Apac branch.
Francis Otim, the Apac District Internal
Security Officer, who is also the acting Apac Resident District Commissioner
says, by Friday evening the surveillance team was still mobilizing for
transport to trace all the six positive cases to be referred to Lira
Regional Referral Hospital.
He said they have instituted partial lockdown of
the area in order to control further spread of the disease.
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Dr. Mathew Emer, the Apac District Health
Officer says that putting the area under lockdown will help the medical team
trace over 100 contacts to the six confirmed cases.
According to Emer , also noted that as the
medical team traces for the contacts, reopening of places of worship places in
the area, operation of markets and unnecessary movement in and outside Amun
parish has been banned.
Robert Olinga Otolo, the Akokoro LCIII Chairman
also caretaking Apoi Sub County called for vigilance from the community citing
that the reality of Covid-19 community transmissions has already started
manifesting itself.
Olinga however says residents should not take
the partial lockdown in bad faith.
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This is the highest number of cases registered in a single
day in Apac district, bringing the total confirmed cases since March to nine.
Solomon Okabo
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