Museveni expected to announce total lockdown as he addresses country on Covid situation today

President Museveni has reported that he will sometime in the afternoon address the country on the Coronavirus circumstance.

“Individual compatriots, countrywomen, bazukulu, I will address the country today at 8:00pm on various issues however for the most part the COVID-19 circumstance. I call upon you to check out the distinctive radio and TV stations for this address,”Museveni declared on his online media handles.

It is normal that the president will declare a second complete lockdown of the country after a proceeded with flood in the Coronavirus contaminations in the country.

While recently, government shut schools and prohibited between region travel with any desire for containing the circumstance, the Covid-19 cases have kept on flooding.

Researchers and the public Covid-19 team had prior asked the president to absolutely lockdown the country however Museveni was resolved to do as such since numerous areas of the economy were simply recuperating from the past lockdown.

This incited him to lockdown a few areas with a require the populace to hold fast to the set Standard Operating Procedures.

Nonetheless, it is said that every one of these have not yielded anything as Covid-19 cases keep on taking off.

For instance in under a month, Uganda has recorded 13254 Covid-19 cases and an aggregate of 149 individuals have capitulated to the lethal infection.

The circumstance has additionally deteriorated after both private and public medical clinics have revealed running out or having intense deficiencies of AstraZeneca antibodies and oxygen. Numerous emergency clinics say they are not, at this point ready to concede patients to serious consideration.

This, as indicated by specialists has accordingly required the requirement for a lockdown.

This situation including the numerous passings because of the infection has likewise constrained numerous Ugandans to deliberately stick to the set Standard Operating Procedures like wearing of covers and washing of hands.

Numerous others like boda riders and cab drivers have coordinated themselves to implement the rules.

President Museveni is thusly expected to declare thoroughly securing the country for a particular timeframe to have the option to contain the circumstance that appears to have left hand.

On Thursday, the Ministry of Health detailed 1584 new Covid-19 cases and 34 passings from tests done on June, 15, 2020.

Uganda has now recorded a combined all out of 67, 215 contaminations and 542 passings since the primary case was accounted for in March 2020.