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NRM SG Lumumba Tests Positive For COVID-19

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Justine Lumumba Kasule

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party Secretary General, Justine Kasule Lumumba has tested positive for COVID-19.

This has been revealed by the party National Treasurer Rose Namayanja-Nsereko while addressing the Media in Kamapla on Sunday.

According to Namayanja, Lumumba tested positive on Saturday, six days after she had been in self-isolation.

She however explained that Lumumba was negative a week earlier but when her handlers tested positive a week ago, the medical practitioners directed her to stay in quarantine until the samples are picked.

“Our party Secretary General has tested positive for COVID-19 but she is stable with no serious symptoms. The party business however will go on uninterrupted despite her physical absence from office,” Namayanja said.

Namayanja appealed to all political candidates to carry out periodic tests on COVID-19 and open up if found positive to ease the tracing of the contacts.

This is not the first-time officials at the NRM secretariat are testing positive for COVID-19.

In July 2020, Lumumba told the media that two key staff had tested positive and had been admitted to hospital for proper care.

Official records from the Ministry of Health indicate that Uganda has so far registered 22,188 positive cases with 206 deaths while 9,117 had recovered

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