![]() Private vehicles should be restricted to not more than 3 people including the driver. All players must have a negative PCR test. Sports events will operate under strict observance of SOPs with no spectators. Public transport within the same district is allowed with strict observance of SOPs as previously described. This is to allow our children to go home.Īll inter-district travel banned except travel within Kampala Metropolitan (Kampala, Wakiso, Mukono).Įxemption for Interdistrict travel and movement of vehicles are: Cargo trucks, registered tourist vehicles essential and Emergency Services vehicles. Weekly non-food markets (Mibuulo Markets) are suspended for 42 days throughout the country.Īlso suspended for 42 days are the monthly cattle auction Markets.Īll public transport (Buses, Taxis, Boda Bodas) between and across districts are suspended for 42 days effective 10th June 2021. All should wear masks and socials distance. Number of persons at burials, vigils and funerals should NOT exceed 20 people. All guests should wear masks and keep their physical distance. House parties are strictly banned and this must be enforced without fail. Marriage ceremonies, parties, and all other social gatherings are only allowed with a maximum of 20 people under strict observance of SOPs. These gathering points such as factories hotels, large plantations, markets, taxi parks, etc., should be allowed to operate under strict observance of SOPS. The non-agricultural activities that will be allowed to continue are factory activities, construction activities, shopping malls, super-markets to continue while observing SOPs issued by the Ministry of Health. At the moment, only India is listed as category A.Īgricultural activities which are: cultivating or ploughing gardens, herding livestock (whether free-range or zero-grazing) and fishing for fish farming to continue because fortunately, most of them do not encourage crowding. Travel from Category 1 countries, as defined by the Ministry of Health, remain suspended except returning Ugandans. Public and Cultural gatherings or Conferences, EXCEPT for the sitting of the Cabinet, Legislature and Judiciary, are hereby suspended for 42 days. Below are the new restrictions.Īll schools and institutions of higher learning to close for 42 days effective 8 am, 7th June 2021.Īll teachers to fully get vaccinated before they are accepted in schools.Ĭommunal prayers in Mosques, Churches or in Stadia and other open-air, venues are suspended for 42 days. The Ministry of Health recently announced that all intensive care and high-dependency beds in the country were already occupied.Īs in many countries on the African continent, vaccination against Covid-19 is progressing very slowly: barely 750,000 people have received one dose (35,000 have received two doses) in a country of some 45 million people. Some health practitioners believe these figures are likely underestimated. The country has so far registered 52,935 cases, including 383 deaths but the number of tests conducted remain low. Assessment will be conducted to determine if the restrictions can be renewed or not. ![]() The new restrictions will remain in place for a period of 42 days. ![]() ![]() Museveni further confirmed that the country had recorded as many severe and critical cases of Covid-19 in two weeks as it did in the first three to four-month period during the first wave. "The proportion of severe or critical cases due to Covid-19, as well as deaths, is higher in this wave than in the first wave of the pandemic," Museveni said. Uganda had adopted strong measures to fight the Covid-19 epidemic as early as March 2020 and the country has relatively been spared from the virus but infections have been increasing in recent weeks, as well as the number of severe cases. The weekly open market days and church services also remain suspended. Shops and markets remain open, provided they comply with government health regulations, but bars remain closed. The curfew currently in place from 21:00 to 05:30 has been maintained until mid-July. ![]()
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