President Yoweri Museveni has this morning confirmed four new cases of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. This brings the total number of cases to 18 in the Pearl of Africa.
“Yesterday, March 26, another 197 people were tested and many of them were returnees from Dubai or other category one countries, only four tested positive,” Museveni said.
The President explained that the four new patients have been under institutional quarantine in the various hotels identified by the sub-committee on quarantine. After confirming them positive for coronavirus, they have been evacuated to Mulago Hospital for treatment.
“It seems, therefore, that the efforts of identifying by temperature monitoring at the airport, quarantining the people on whom there’s some suspicion and tracing the ones who escaped from the quarantine is working well,” Museveni said.
Museveni revealed that the majority of the 14 people who are hospitalized at Entebbe, Mulago and Masaka with the virus are responding well to the treatment and seem to be improving.
“I thank all of you for embracing the measures we announced to control the Coronavirus,” he said.