SATURDAY APRIL 18 2020
A Tanzanian cargo truck driver who tested positive for covid-19 will be repatriated to his home country to receive treatment, according to Ms Robinah Nabbanja, the State Minister of Health in charge of general duties.
Dr Edward Muwanga, the Kyotera District health officer said that the driver’s nasal swab sample was taken on arrival at the border and was allowed to drive on on Thursday
"When the results returned on Friday and it was confirmed that he is positive, we used the established channels to trace him and he was intercepted in Kiryandongo District," he said.
Dr Muwanga said that they are tracing all his contracts to have them tested.
This follows intensified effort by health teams in Kyotera District together with Ministry of Health staff to test the truckers in order to curb the spread of covid-19 in Uganda.
So far, the teams have drawn nasal swab samples from 130 truck drivers and their turn boys who enter the country through Mutukula Border Post, to curb the spread of the coronavirus virus.
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Covid-19 positive truck driver to be deported to Tanzania
My take
-Uganda was smart enough to act on timely manner to alleviate the spread of Covid 19 in their country.
-Scientists in Uganda have invented locally made and cheap Covid 19 test kits
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Ugandan scientists develop quick, low-cost COVID-19 test kits - Alliance for Science
-So far its people are in the curfew trying to curb the spread. This is since March 31, 2020.
-Many people are being tested on daily basis.
Questions to ask our Tanzanian government
1. How many people are being tested on daily basis? why this question? our neighbours are testing around 1,000 a day and that is why they seem to have a bigger number of positive people. If we are testing 50 people a day, can we sensibly say that we have lesser figures?
2. If a common mwananchi accesses the daily report issued by the panel of physicians to Ummy Mwalimu, and later on that same mwananchi finds a huge discrepancy between the original report from the panel of physicians and the massaged report from Ummy to the public, is he protected under the Whistleblowing Act?
3. How many ventilators do we have countrywide? there countries in Africa with fewer ventilators.
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10 African Countries Have No Ventilators. That’s Only Part of the Problem.
I believe a crime has not been perpetrated if we ask these questions