President Museveni on COVID-19 Archives

Museveni launches clinical trial for Covid-19 remedy, Ugandans urged to participate

President Yoweri Museveni today launches the first clinical trial of UBV-01N, a natural product anticipated to have antiviral (kill viruses), anti-inflammatory (reduces over reaction of the body to infections) and immunological (directs

January 27, 2021

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Transport and Works minister General Edward Katumba Wamala. He says they may be forced to halt public transport because of unruly motorists

Transport minister threatens to halt public transport over motorists flouting COVID-19 regulations

Works and Transport minister General Edward Katumba Wamala has threatened to halt public transport, saying some taxi operators and motorists are not obeying COVID-19 guidelines put in place by government to stem

August 17, 2020

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Monsignor David Cappo is the Chief Executive, YouBelong Uganda; Catholic Priest and Social Worker; Former Member of the Australian Government’s Expert Panel on Mental Health; Former Commissioner for Social Inclusion for the South Australian Government.

OPINION: Overcoming Covid-19 in Uganda—A call for solidarity and strict adherence to public health measures

By Monsignor David Cappo Do you believe that COVID-19 is real? Have you felt prepared to follow the President’s lockdown and social distancing measures? While the majority of people in Uganda would

June 10, 2020

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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni says Uganda needs the trucks coming until railway transport is functional

Covid-19: All measures to ease lockdown are dependent on the availability of gov’t issued masks; Museveni clarifies

The Uganda government has moved to ease down on a number of travel and business-opening restrictions, but President Museveni insists all these moves are dependent on the availability of government approved and

May 19, 2020

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Uganda’s Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng (pictures), and her colleagues, Dr. Diana Atwiine and Dr. Henry Mwebesa the ministry’s Permanent Secretary and Director General of Health Services have become the face of Uganda’s resistance to the Covid-19 disease. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has also been praised by the public for his firm, yet empathetic response to managing the spread of the disease

VOTE OF CONFIDENCE: 80% of Ugandans confident about gov’t efforts to stop Covid-19 spread

80per cent of Ugandans who took part in a Geopoll Survey say the government has done enough to stop Covid-19 spread. The survey, titled: Coronavirus in Sub-Saharan Africa; how Africans in 12

April 28, 2020

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LEFT RIGHT: Paddy Muramiirah; Crown Beverages CEO, Hon Mary Karooro Okurut, Red Cross’s Robert Kwesiga and Dr. Amos Nzeyi, Crown Beverages’ Chairman. Crown Beverages is one of the leading donors to the campaign, giving out a total of UGX1 billion in cash and kind. To date, individuals and organisations have donated 31 motor vehicles and UGX4.6 billion to Government of Uganda’s efforts to fight Covid-19. This does not include the other items in kind such as food, fuel, medical equipment and water.

HEART OF GOLD: 31 vehicles and UGX4.6 billion donated to government Covid-19 fund

Individuals and organisations have to date donated 31 motor vehicles and UGX4.6 billion to Government of Uganda’s efforts to fight Covid-19. This is in response to President Museveni’s call to the private

April 14, 2020

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“We shall cancel your trade licenses,” President Museveni warns traders hiking prices over COVID-19

A day after Uganda confirmed eight new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total confirmed cases to nine, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has assured Ugandans that the situation is still manageable if only the

March 24, 2020

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