The Inspector General of Police, Martin Okoth Ochola (pictured) has directed for temporarily closure of police headquarters in Naguru, a Kampala suburb to allow thorough fumigation of the place as a measure of containing the spread of COVID-19.
The venue will be closed for three days.
This follows the news of two police officials who tested positive for COVID-19 last week and that the two are now quarantined in Entebbe and Jinja.
Addressing the press at Uganda Media Centre, the Police spokesperson, Fred Enanga said currently, all police officials suspected to have been in contact with the two that tested positive are being traced and will have to undergo tests.
Enanga urged the directors whose services have been conducted at the headquarters to improvise measures through which they can still serve the public during this period when the place is out of bounds.
It should be noted that over the weekend Former Police spokesperson, AIGP Asan Kasingye revealed that he had tested positive for COVID-19.
In a related development, top officials at Uganda Prisons Services have called on the Ministry of Health to carry out mass COVID-19 testing to all its prisoners and staff after 153 prisoners tested positive for COVID-19.
Leading the call was Prisons Spokesperson, Frank Baine who made the plea today while addressing journalists at Uganda Media Center, revealing that the COVID-19 is a threat to the prisons’ population and suggested to have all suspects tested first for the virus before they can access the prison cells.
Currently, Uganda’s prisons population stands at 61,867 inmates as well as 12,060 staff.
The development comes at the time the Ministry of Health announced that Uganda recorded its highest number of COVID-19 cases of 318 on Friday, with 153 of these reported at Amuru Prisons and one staff, prompting Government to evacuate the patients to Gulu prisons treatment center and Gulu referral hospital respectively for management.
