COVID-19 Crisis: Uganda Flattens Curve as 1,000 More Samples Test Negative

Uganda has continued to flatten the Coronavirus curve after 1,126 samples tested negative for the novel virus on Saturday.

Confirmed cases of COVID-19 stand at 55 in the country which has maintained a lockdown and night curfew for more than a month.

The Health Ministry this past Saturday said 837 samples were from truck drivers at border points.

An additional 289 samples were taken from individuals under institutional quarantine and contacts to confirmed cases.

33 people are still sick and 22 people have recovered from the coronavirus in Uganda.

Health Minister Dr Ruth Aceng yesterday urged the public during this period of lockdown “not to accept visitors into your homes, not even neighbors; ensure adequate physical distancing with people who do not live with you every day.”

“Stay at home, avoid trading centers and other business places because you do not know where your friend has been or whether he/she is safe,” she added.

The Minister also announced that mobile laboratories have been procured and will be received in the country this Sunday.

Uganda is slowly flattening the Coronavirus curve

“They will be deployed at the congested border points to quicken testing and return of results,” said Aceng.

Despite closing borders, truck drivers from foreign countries (Kenya and Tanzania) have tested positive for the virus.

Screening has since been intensified at 53 points of entry.

At least 2,500 trucks enter Uganda on a daily basis.

Kenya has since registered 262 Coronavirus cases while Tanzania’s stand at 147 with 5 deaths.

Rwanda has 144 Coronavirus cases while Burundi’s stand at 5 with one death. South Sudan has four cases of COVID-