COVID-19: Uganda gov’t shuts schools, religious gatherings and entertainment places; bans travel to and from highly infected countries.

Uganda is yet to register its first coronavirus case, but President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has made a proactive move to close schools, suspend religious worship gatherings, entertainment get together as well. The move affects over 51,000 schools (Pre-primary, Primary, Secondary, University, and Tertiary) that Museveni said are points of population concentration, holding up to 15 million Ugandans. Likening the coronavirus to a fire, Museveni said that although Uganda had not reported any case of the virus yet, dispersing these centres of population concentration would deny the fire from finding a heap of dry grass ready to ignite. A firm but…