A senior health ministry official said that Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has tested positive for COVID-19, but he is in good health and will continue his duties, while getting treatment.
“Today …the President tested positive for COVID-19.
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This was after developing mild flu-like symptoms. However he is in robust heath and continues to perform his duties normally while adhering to SOPs,” Diane Atwine, permanent secretary at the health ministry, said on Twitter, referring to standard operating procedures for handling COVID cases.
After giving a State of the Nation address at the parliament’s grounds, 78 year old Museveni, gave a first hint that he may have contracted COVID, saying that he had felt a slight cold, which prompted him to request for a COVID tests.
He said two of three tests he had done were negative, and he was waiting for the outcome of another.
He said two of three tests he had done were negative, and he was waiting for the outcome of another.
“So I am a suspect of corona and I am standing here. That is why you saw me coming in separate cars with Mama,” Museveni said, referring to the First Lady Janet Museveni, who accompanied him to parliament.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Uganda was among Africa’s toughest containment measures that included curfews, businesses and school closures, the shutting of borders and other steps.
It fully reopened in February 2022.
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