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By Ambrose Kweronda

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In Kabale—

Boda boda riders in Kabale Municipality have accused the police of brutality and extortion in the course of enforcing the presidential directives on COVID-19

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni directed boda boda riders to carry only cargo and end their operations at 7:00pm as one way of curbing the spread of COVID19.

However, boda boda riders told www.mknewslink.com that Police have used this chance to obtain money from them.

According to Akim Tumwijukye, once their motorcycles are impounded, they are forced to pay 50,000cash which has no receipt.

Another boda boda rider Ronald Mugisha who works from highland stage said police are found of beating them yet the president ordered them to stop such punishment.

The Kabale Resident District commissioner RDC Darius Nandinda told www.mknewslink.com that boda boda riders have continued violating   guidelines on COVID19 to the extent that some have knocked down police officers.

RDC Darius encouraged the police to continue mounting road blocks to arrest every rider violating the Ministry Of Health guidelines aimed at safeguarding Ugandans against the pandemic

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By Aggrey Twesigye

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In Mbarara—

Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital has today 1st.July.2021received 5 Oxygen Cylinders and 5 ICU beds as the first consignment of 10 beds pledged by Epicenter Mbarara.

The ICU beds and oxygen cylinders were delivered today during the opening of COVID 19 isolation Unit which was recently constructed at the hospital.

Handing over the relief items to the hospital director, Dr. Juliet Muwanga the Head of Epicenter Mbarara noted that since the outbreak of the second wave of COVID 19 pandemic, they have decided to give a helping hand to Mbarara regional referral hospital.

Dr. Celestine Barigye the Hospital Director Mbarara regional referral hospital commended the act by Epicenter noting that the hospital still needs more Intensive Care Unit Beds and Oxygen Cylinders to treat the increasing number of COVID 19 patients at the facility.

Dr. Barigye revealed that as of today 1st July, 2021 the hospital has managed 1050 COVID 19 cases, 276 recoveries with 114 COVID 19 related deaths. They currently have 37 COVID 19 patients in the Isolation unit.

He said that the hospital still needs 3000 COVID 19 Astrazeneca jabs to cater for over 200 people that were yesterday sent away after the hospital ran out of the vaccine.

The Resident City Commissioner Lt.Col.James Mwesigye pleaded for more support towards the hospital as it continues to admit more COVID 19 cases.

Mwesigye is now appealing to the public to be Keen with the ministry of health COVID 19 SOPs as the country is hit by the second wave of COVID 19.

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By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante

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In Kampala—

Ben Kumumanya the Permanent secretary for ministry Local government has warned Ugandans against declaring people who are alive as dead.

Kumumanya was responding to a social media post which alleged that so many Chief Administrative Officers have succumbed to COVID 19.

He said that this is not true but confirmed the death of Kapchorwa and Rubirizi Chief Administrative Officers who died early this week.

The PS emphasized that culturally, death of a person is announced by the bereaved family but not everybody as social media users do these days.

He noted that such announcements and messages posted on different forums traumatize people instead of giving them hope.

He added that even at burials; church, mosque and government leaders give people hope but not despair as is a case during this COVID 19 period.

He called upon genuine people to report more on recoveries than those who have died after all, the number of recoveries is high compared to the fallen ones.

Uganda has so far registered 79977 cases of COVID 19, 52961 recoveries and 1023 deaths ever since the pandemic broke out in March 2020.

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