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COVID-19 Death Toll Rises To 16 As Uganda Registers 53 New Cases

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The Ministry of Health has confirmed that Uganda has registered one death of COVID-19.

This brings the total COVID-19 deaths to sixteen.

The deceased is a 60-year-old Ugandan male from Mbale District.

He presented at a private health facility in Mbale District with signs and symptoms consistent with COVID-19 and was under isolation.

He was then referred to Mbale Regional Referral Hospital for further management where he passed on.

A total of sixteen contacts to the deceased have so far been listed.

In the same vein, results from samples tested on 18th August 2020 confirmed 53 new COVID-19 cases.

Of the fifty-three confirmed cases; thirty-five are alerts and eighteen are contacts to previously confirmed cases.

Regarding the thirty-two alerts; – twenty-eight are from Kampala, two from Wakiso, two from Amuru and three from Buikwe, Buvuma and Soroti

The eighteen contacts to previously confirmed cases are broken down as follows;- ten are from Kikuube, five are from Kampala and three are from Busia, Masindi and Wakiso.

Eleven foreign truck drivers 10 Kenyans and 1 Rwandese tested positive for COVID-19 at the border points of entry and their entry into the country was not permitted.

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