State Minister for Primary Healthcare, Joyce Kaducu The Ministry of Health has distanced itself from demands by school owners to parents to pay Shs240, 000 for COVID tests for their students ahead of school reopening next week. The Ministry says the tests aren’t mandatory. The revelation was made by Joyce
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Enclosed spaces listed among conditions where Covid-19 can spread Coronavirus is now airborne, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There is evidence that under certain conditions, people with Covid-19 could infect those who are more than six feet away, CDC says in its updated guidelines.
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The number of people impacted by seasonal flooding in East Africa has increased six-fold in the last five years, according to data given to BBC by the United Nations. Nearly six million people have already been affected this year with 1.5 million of them displaced from their homes. Parts of
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Kenyan coffee has been rejected in Japan and South Korea Kenya’s coffee risks losing its top spot in the world market following its rejection in Japan and South Korea due to high levels of chemical contamination, Business Daily reports. The chemical levels of Ochratoxin have exceeded the allowable minimum, resulting
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Dr. Diana Atwine, Health Ministry Permanent Secretary Government has allocated Shs5.76bnfor procurement of face masks for students in final years who resume their studies on 15th this month. Health Ministry Permanent Secretary, Dr .Diana Atwine made the revelation while appearing before the Budget Committee chaired by Amos Lugolobi to defend
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IMF Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on October 2, 2020 a second six-month tranche of debt service relief for 28 member countries under the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT). This approval follows the first six-month tranche (April 14 – October
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Uganda is set to lose US$287M (about ShsShs1.062Trn) in taxes because of the Double Tax Agreements signed between Uganda and Netherlands that will see Total walk away without paying some taxes to Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), a new report has revealed. Titled “The Money Pipeline”, the Oxfam released yesterday estimates
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MTN Uganda and Airtel have temporarily suspended their mobile money services after a fraud that saw customers locked out of their telecom and bank accounts was reported by Stanbic Bank. In a joint statement issued on Monday evening, the telecoms announced the suspension of mobile money services, blaming their decision
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Roughly one in 10 people may have been infected with the coronavirus, leaving the vast majority of the world’s population vulnerable to the COVID-19 disease it causes, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Mike Ryan, the WHO’s top emergency expert, was addressing the agency’s Executive Board, where the United
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Minister of Works and Transport, General Katumba Wamala Members of Parliament on Budget Committee have strongly opposed a plan by the Government of Uganda to spend Shs254bn on the construction of roads in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The MPs’ objection was revealed during a meeting held between Ministry of
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