The Ministry of Health has confirmed 11 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 74.
All the 11 are foreign truck drivers. Six Tanzanians who came through Mutukula and five Kenyans who entered Uganda through Busia and Malaba.
The new numbers were recorded on Thursday by the Ministry of Health after lab tests at the Uganda Virus Research Centre in Entebbe.
According to Dr Henry Mwebesa, the director-general of health services at the Ministry of Health, one case was recorded from 311 samples that were taken from the community and quarantine centres and one case was from 1,020 samples tested from truck drivers at border points of entry.
Within one week, over 17 truck drivers have tested positive for the virus in Uganda, a development that has undermined Uganda’s earlier efforts.
This has created concern among Ugandans, calling on authorities to keep the drivers and turnmen at border points until their statuses are ascertained.