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30 June 2020 — Twenty-four (24) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 3694 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to one thousand and twenty-five (1025). To date, four hundred and forty-seven (447) patients have recovered and been discharged, including four (4) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is five hundred and seventy-six (576) and two (2) deaths.

PRESS RELEASE: JUNE 29, 2020

The EU through its Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (ECHO) has donated KES 270 million (2,573,105 Million Euros) to WHO Kenya. This grant will be used by the WHO to support the Government of Kenya’s efforts to control the spread of the pandemic. Specifically, WHO Kenya will boost the response effort by training frontline health workers at national and county levels and strengthen the current work being done by the COVID-19 rapid response and clinical teams across all counties.

29 June 2020 — A hundred and one (101) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 2498 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to one thousand and one (1001). To date, four hundred and forty-three (443) patients have recovered and been discharged. The number of active cases is five hundred and fifty-six (556) and two (2) deaths.

28 June 2020 — Twenty-two (22) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 3002 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to nine hundred (900). To date, four hundred and forty-three (443) patients have recovered and been discharged, including thirty (30) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is four hundred and fifty-five (455) and two (2) deaths.

The new cases are from Rusizi (8), Rubavu (7), Kigali (6) and Kirehe (1); heightened vigilance is required everywhere. 
 All active cases are in isolation in stable condition.  

27 June 2020 — Twenty (20) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 4702 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to eight hundred and seventy-eight (878). To date, four hundred and thirteen (413) patients have recovered and been discharged, including fifteen (15) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is four hundred and sixty-three (463) and two (2) deaths.

The new cases are from Rusizi (15), Rubavu (3) and Kigali (2); heightened vigilance is required everywhere. 
 All active cases are in isolation in stable condition.  

by Tatenda Chimbwanda

Kampala, 26 June 2020:-The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic whose initial case was first reported in the Wuhan Province of China in January 2019 has affected the lives of many people, globally. Equally, Uganda has not been spared. The country has reached three months under lockdown which started in April 2020. Although there has been gradual ease of the lockdown, some sections of Ugandans remain affected.

The Ninth WHO Global Forum for Government Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers (GCNMOs) and the Eighth Triad Meeting organized jointly by WHO, the International Confederation of Midwives and the International Council of Nurses was held through a virtual meeting from the 16th to 19th June 2020.

The focus of the meeting was on COVID-19; evidence-informed policy dialogue to advance nursing and midwifery; and the global strategic directions for nursing and midwifery

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the world’s deadliest infectious killer. Each day, over 4000 people lose their lives to TB and close to 30,000 people fall ill with this preventable and curable disease. Global efforts to combat TB have saved an estimated 58 million lives since the year 2000. In Zimbabwe it is estimated that about 30,000 people fall ill of TB each year and about 4,600 of these, die.