Uganda requires all visitors to undergo Covid-19 testing

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The government has ordered that all travelers and truck drivers entering Uganda undergo an obligatory Covid-19 PCR test at their own expense at every entry point.

“At Shs110, 000, travellers shall test each time they enter this country,” reads a notice issued January 1 by the Ministry of Health through Port Health Services.

Following a recent rise in new Covid-19 cases, a provision is due to go into effect that “will see truck drivers’ results only valid for seven days while in route.”

“After taking off the samples, clients shall be allowed to proceed and results of travellers shall be sent to their email addresses while truck drivers will receive theirs on smart phones,” the Services informed Saturday.

Uganda’s test positivity rate jumped to 23.2 percent Saturday evening, the highest in over three months, as 1, 867 new Covid-19 cases were recorded, bringing Uganda’s total to 142, 604 infections since the outbreak was discovered in March 2020, necessitating a return to more stringent restrictions.

During the same time span, health officials reported 3, 297 Coronavirus-related deaths and at least 98, 421 cumulative recoveries.

President Museveni pledged to fully reopen Uganda’s economy in January 2022, but warned that the “Omicron Covid-19 variant is very serious,” warning that he could reverse that decision “if a high Covid-19 dependency on ICU bed occupancy exceeds 50% and once the daily rate of the hospitalization of critically ill patients is sustained at 30 per day for 5 days in 2 or more Covid-19 units in Uganda.”

Source: africa-press.net

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