President Museveni will tomorrow Tuesday, July 21st address the nation on the #covid-19 pandemic situation in the country.
In March, President Museveni ordered for closure of all schools, Churches, none-food markets, schools, shops, Salons among other businesses. The lockdown peddled at curbing the spread of the deadly covid-19 virus.
The directive followed the outbreak of Coronavirus in China’s Wuhan City in Hubei Province. The virus has since spread to over 200 countries. Currently, there are 14,043,176 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 597,583 deaths, reported to the world health organization (WHO). There are 1062 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Uganda and zero related deaths.
Since closure of businesses in Uganda, the president has been easing lockdown on covid-19 un-risky business such as shopping malls, transport sector under strict guidelines which include wearing facemasks in public places, washing hands etc.
The president is expected to respond to trader’s pea of opening shopping arcades after staging a protest demanding to be cleared to resume businesses. Last week a joint team from the ministry of health, Kampala capital city authority (KCCA) and police cleared 48 shopping arcades after meeting all required standard operating procedures (SOPs) to re-open for business.
The procedures were put up by the ministry of health in a bid to stop the spread of the deadly virus. The SOPs are wearing face masks, hand washing areas, maintaining social distance, emergency rooms, etc.
The boda-boda industry is also expected to know their plight, four months since the government enforced the lockdown.
