2 Women Quarantined after Coming into Contact with Truck Driver who Tested Positive for COVID-19

Two women who came into contact with a Kenyan truck driver that tested positive for coronavirus have been taken to an isolation facility in Lira District.

The two women are part of several others who are said interacted with the truck driver who was tested at Busia border post but allowed to continue with his journey.

When he tested positive, Ministry of Health officials together with district officials began searching for him and the contacts.

The driver, who passed through, Busia, Tororo, Mbale, Bukedea, Kumi, Soroti, Kaberamaido and Dokolo districts, stopped at Abutadi Trading Centre, Amach Sub-county in Lira to buy ripe sweet bananas from the two women now under mandatory quarantine.

He continued with the journey through Kole District but was intercepted at Kamdini in Oyam District and taken to Kampala for treatment.

Mr Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the Ministry of Health spokesperson, said  that the two women were on Thursday taken to Lira School of Comprehensive Nursing and Midwifery together. 

He said more contacts are being sought for possible isolation.

One Kenyan driver and his Ugandan counterpart tested positive of coronavirus on Tuesday.