Kagadi registers another COVID-19 Patient as Uganda’s Death toll rises to 12

RDC KAGADI LILLIAN RUTERAHO(PHOTO/MUGISA)

 

By:Admin

Kagadi

Kagadi district has registered another COVID-19 Patient bringing to a total number of two.

Recently the district registered the first case of COVID-19 who was treated and discharged at Hoima Regional Referral hospital. 

According to the Kagadi district COVID-19 task force chairperson who also doubles as the Resident district Commissioner (RDC) Lillian Ruteraho, the victim is 36 year old man resident of Wakiso district.

Ruteraho says the Victim and other ten (10) people had come into the district to do the works of auditing the Shegli engineering Construction Company limited that was contracted to tarmac Kabwoyo-Kagadi-Kyenjojo Road.

She says they all resided at DEMO Hotel in Kagadi town council Kagadi district.

Ruteraho however expressed her fear saying by the time of releasing the results the patient and other suspects had departed from the district after their work.    

She said the investigations of the alerts and their contacts have commenced as they look forward tracing for the patient.

Meanwhile today the Ministry of Health confirmed another death of one Covid-19 patient, bringing the number of people who have succumbed to the disease in Uganda to twelve.

A statement by the ministry says that 32 new Covid-19 cases were confirmed from samples tested on Thursday, bringing the cumulative confirmed cases in Ugandans to 1,385.