UGANDA: Record 84 test positive May 30

FILE PHOTO: A health worker takes a sample from a truck driver undergoing a test for COVID-19 coronavirus in Busia, a town bordering with Uganda in western Kenya on May 14, 2020. Truck drivers have the highest number of confirmed cases. PHOTO AFP

May 30th – new COVID-19 cases 84
Total confirmed cases 413.
50 new cases are from South Sudan point of entry
32 new cases are contacts to previously confirmed truck drivers.

51 positive foreign truck drivers were handed over to their country of origin
Total Recoveries: 72
Samples from Points of Entry tested today: 1,477
Samples from community and contacts: 358
Samples tested today: 1,835

 

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s confirmed COVID-19 cases shot past 400 Saturday as  the Ministry of Health announced the highest number of positives ever got in a single day — 84 .

The previous highest number on a single day since tests began in March was 36 on May 28. Uganda’s revised total confirmed cases now rise to 413.

The single daily previous highest was 43 on May 15th, but only 17 of those were Ugandans.

Uganda last week revised its confirmed cases figures, cutting of hundreds of truck drivers from neigbouring countries.

Today, another 251 positive foreign truck drivers were turned back to their countries of origin .

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