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President Yoweri Museveni has said although it would be too early to determine whether the country is managing the COVID-19 situation or not, there are some good news.
“The good news is that yesterday but one, the 25th of March, 104 returnees from Dubai or their associates were tested for the virus and they were all negative. The other good news is that the majority of the 14 people who are hospitalized at Entebbe, Mulago and Masaka with the virus are responding well to the treatment and seem to be improving,” he said in a tweet Friday morning.
He argued that it appears the measures so far put in place are working.
“It seems, therefore, that the efforts of identifying by temperature monitoring at the airport, quarantining the people on whom there’s some suspicion and tracing the ones who escaped from the quarantine is working well,” he said.
Earlier, four new cases were confirmed.
The President said, the 4 had been under institutional quarantine in the various hotels identified by the sub-committee on quarantine.
This followed a test Thursday.
197 people were tested.
Many of them were returnees from Dubai or other category one countries, only 4 tested positive.
They have been evacuated to Mulago Hospital for treatment.
This now moves the number of confirmed cases in Uganda to 18.
