Uganda has registered its first COVID-19 death four months after the epidemic broke out in the country.
The victim is a 34-year-old woman who died at Joy
Hospice Center in Mbale City on Wednesday.
Dr. Joyce Moriku Kaducu, the Primary Health Care Minister, says the results
from the samples taken from the deceased show that she was positive for
COVID-19 and that the public continue adhering to the technical guidelines.
This morning, Kasese Guide radio published a story indicating that the deceased who was a Kenyan national but married to a Ugandan had been rushed to Joy Hospice Center in Mbale from Namisindwa district with symptoms of the virus.
Her death prompted the Mbale District COVID-19
taskforce, led by Dr. Isaac Wepondi, the Acting Medical Officer Mbale Municipal
Council to cordon off Joy Hospice Center and quarantine 16 health workers and
more than 30 other people who are believed to have had contact with the
deceased.
By this morning,
Uganda had 117 COVID-19 patients admitted to different health facilities. END