By Frank Kamuntu
President
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has reiterated his directive to all Ugandans to put on
face masks whenever they are going to public places, as a way of fighting the
spread against Coronavirus (COVID-19).
In
a statement he shared on twitter and other social media platforms on Monday,
President Museveni cautioned Ugandans thus; “In addition to washing hands [with
soap], using sanitiser and keeping social distance, it is important that you
wear masks when in public. Together we will defeat #COVID19.”
The
President continued to state that;
“Don’t just make them hang around your neck. Put the mask over your mouth and nose all the time as long as you are in public. (www.hotelogix.com) Even when you are speaking, leave the mask on because if you remove it, you are infecting or getting infection from the air and also the hands you are fidgeting with while removing the mask can bring infection.”
However,
Museveni’s message comes at a time when many Ugandans both in rural and urban centers
are crying out to provide them with masks because they cannot afford buying
them and several have since started improvising.
Meanwhile,
information coming in from the Ministry of Health indicates that Uganda currently
has 122 registered cases of COVID-19.
Minister
Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng on May, 11, 2020
confirmed one new CCOVID-19 case in Uganda out of 2,296 samples from truck
drivers.
The
new case is a Ugandan truck driver who arrived from Juba via Elegu border
point. He brings the total number of COVID-19 cases to 122 in Uganda.
However,
the Minister revealed that all the 558 community samples tested negative for
COVID-19 out of 2,854 total samples
The
total number of recovered cases in the country stands at 55 and the country has
not registered any single death since the outbreak of this Pandemic.
