This afternoon, Uganda Police Force Chief Political Commissar Asan Kasingye announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19.
The former police spokesperson is known to be very vocal on his Twitter account so he made the announcement on his platform. “Bad News!! I am COVID-19 positive,” Asan tweeted.
Asan becomes the first high ranking security personnel to reveal that the results of his COVID-19 tests.
Today, the Ministry of Health confirmed that 90 cases were confirmed from the test done yesterday.
Kampala continues to have the highest number of cases confirmed in the country with 59 having been confirmed from the recently conducted tests.
The President is expected to give an address this week to give more guidelines to curb the spread of COVID-19 since the country has been registering a lot of community cases.
Ugandan now has 2,263 confirmed cases, 1,226 recoveries and 20 deaths.