According to the country’s health minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, Covid-19 cases in Uganda are on the rise.
In a tweet made Sunday 5th June, Aceng said that the country had started experiencing an increase in the number of daily infections, just like it was last year in January when the deadly Omicron variant hit the country and is also similar to the rise we faced in June 2021 when the Delta variant was prevalent and ended up killing several people.
“We have started experiencing an increase in the daily number of COVID-19 cases compared to the stable trends we observed since January 2022”.
The covid-19 pandemic brought about a greater need for hospital services, especially intensive care. While intensive care is being provided, the overwhelming demand has caused a stretch on the available beds across the region up to date.
As we talk now Uganda has over 100 ICU beds in government hospitals, though there is limited access to them. There is need to train ICU personnel to increase accessibility.
After the president lifting the lockdown,many districts including Arua went ahead and disbanded their covid task forces.
This is likely to create a big impact towards the nation since the country will noe have to get back to looking for members to work in these task forces.
The laxity among the population is the main reason as to why the country is heading for yet another hard time fighting covid-19.
Today as the president was addressing the nation in the State of the Nation Address he went ahead and said that the public needs to be careful again. He asked himself why were people not putting on masks at Namugongo?
He said that the country is again getting two deaths per week from corona.
“The public needs to be careful again. Why were people not putting on masks at Namugongo? We are again getting two deaths per week from corona.” Museveni said.
Uganda has recorded 164,366 cumulative corona virus positive cases since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, Uganda reported 3,602 corona virus Deaths.
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