Covid-19: Uganda bans flights to and fro India
Saturday May 01 2021
Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister of Health, said there is need to scale up surveillance, contact tracing and testing at the district level so as to detect cases early. PHOTO | FILE
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The country is also in a crisis with an acute shortage of essential supplies such as oxygen and ventilators for overflowing critical cases to health facilities.
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India has so far recorded more than 18 million cases of COVID-19 with over 208,000 deaths.
On Saturday, India reported over 400,000 new Covid cases in 24 hours for the first time, the first country to do so in the pandemic, official data showed.