By Editorial,
The Ministry of Health has allayed fears of a looming lockdown following viral social media claims around a purported surge in COVID-19 infections in Uganda.
Speaking to this radio in an interview today, Dr Col Henry Kyobe, the COVID-19 incident commander in the Ministry, said what their surveillance teams are seeing and the trends in cases testing positive for the viral disease, are not unique from what has been happening over the past year.
Dr. Kyobe said they have only been picking dozens of positive cases from thousands of samples tested regularly for pneumonia-related illnesses. Dr. Kyobe speaking………
Claims of a new lethal variant of COVID-19 followed reports from Bullisa district that ten oil workers under the Tilenga project area, being operated by TotalEnergies, had tested positive during a testing exercise within the camp. END