Uganda has documented 10,931 more Covid-19 cases in nine days, accounting for 14% of total cases.
According to a report by the local newspaper Daily Monitor, 77,574 samples were tested for the coronavirus between June 15 and June 23, with 10,931 testing positive, bringing the overall case load in the country to 76,562.
During the same time period, 322 individuals died from the condition.
Last month, Uganda suffered its second wave of Covid-19, which was attributed to a variety of factors, including a lack of adherence to the enforcement of standard operating procedures (SOPs), among others, while other experts attributed it to variants like the De.
President Museveni has said the new stringent measures to curb COVID, incuding a 42-day lockdown and restrictions on the movement of people, will ease the burden on Uganda’s struggling health system.
He deployed police and the army to chase citizens off the roads leading to Kampala, and roadblocks are in place at district borders. The travel restrictions have hit small-scale traders hard.
Although the government has promised cash bailouts via mobile phone accounts to vulnerable people during the lockdown, there is widespread skepticism. Ugandans are unhappy about how COVID relief funds were mismanaged during COVID lockdown last year.
While some view the measures as draconian, others are more concerned with President Museveni’s ban on social gatherings such as weddings and funerals.
But Museveni remains firm and told the nation: “My uncle died during this corona, I never went to bury, because I was adding nothing, I was not going to resurrect him, what difference does it make, just gathering when there is so much danger.”
