Buvuma District Police has suspended operations at their head office after 10 suspects tested positive for COVID-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The suspects, who were transported to Mulago Hospital on Monday were arrested on the previous Friday for different charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were supposed to be arraigned before the Grade I Magistrates court on Monday but before the session, results from tests conducted after their arrest indicated that all of them were positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buvuma district has so far registered 47 cases out of the 300 tests carried out since the outbreak of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buvuma Acting Resident District Commissioner Juma Kigongo says that after the incident, the COVID-19 task force closed the police operations and subjected all police officers to self-isolation for mandatory 14 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The closed station serves as the central police for all the scattered islands making up Buvuma district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It has one office block, with a store and a male detention facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another detached small block serves as a female detention facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The taskforce has now written to the police headquarters for guidance on how law and order can be maintained in the community at a time when the entire workforce is quarantined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It has also requested for guidance on the management of new suspects once identified in the district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Kigongo, most of the cases previously tested in Buvuma have been treated and discharged from hospitals while about five of them were managed at their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He expresses fear that many people cross into the district from Kalangala, Tanzania and Kenya without being screened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Buvuma District Police has suspended operations at their head office after 10 suspects tested positive for COVID-19. The suspects, who were transported to Mulago Hospital on Monday were arrested on the previous Friday for different charges. They were supposed to be arraigned before the Grade I Magistrates court on Monday but before the session, results […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2270,"featured_media":19185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[3214,633,31],"class_list":["post-19184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buvuma-police-headquarters","tag-covid-19","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19186,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19184\/revisions\/19186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}