Mr Rao Mohan the chairman of the association said they resolved to work with Uganda's health workers on this project as they transfer skills to the local medics
The Export and Import Bank of India has committed to lend $141 million (about Shs492 billion) to the Uganda government to build electricity transmission lines
Uganda confirms Indian strain Nobert Atukunda Government has confirmed that Uganda has registered the Indian Covid-19 variant B.1.617. Col Dr Henry Kyobe, the Covid-19 incident commander, yesterday said the country has now registered five Covid-19 variants, namely Ugandan, Nigerian, South Africa, and UK strains. Dr Kyobe said the UK, South Africa, and India variants are more transmissible and mainly affect a younger age group in cases where they have been recorded. However, he added that the variant causing more havoc in India is the UK variant. “Variants of concern are those that change the epidemiology, transmission and effect on individuals. In that case, they might be more virulent and change from one age to the other. They might change in symptoms and in the worst case scenario therapeutics and vaccines may not be able to respond to them, but we have not yet seen that,” Dr Kyobe said. Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister of Health, said there is need to scale
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