The authority says that it needs up to 150 billion Shillings to cover the recurrent wage bill and sustained operations, port health infrastructure and systems, enhanced security and modification of the terminal building to meet social distancing requirements.
The RDC says that his office has received several complaints against security officers who mistreat and assault pregnant women who are either carried on motorcycles or found without face masks.
However, genetic sequencing carried out show that the Ebola strain-Ebola Zaire that ravaged the North and South Kivu and the Ituri Province from August 2018, is different from the new virus.
Four of the cases were picked from points of entry while another four were from alerts in the community; two from Kyotera, one from Kayunga and one from Amuru district. The country's total confirmed cases stands at 665, out of which 546 remain active in hospitals across the country.
Kyomuhendo Queen, a teacher by profession and the group mobilization secretary says that she has observed residents have disregarded presidential directives which calls for the efforts of everyone to inform and continue sensitizing them about the and dangers of the disease.
In queues, big trucks carrying merchandise wrestle for space with groups of people, some with face masks below their chins struggling through the only two entrances to the more than 20 arcades that make the busiest Kikuubo lane. The arcades had never been opened since the end of March when President Museveni directed a lockdown on both transport and non- food business.
Dr Edward Muwanga, the Kyotera District Health Officer and Secretary to the task force says they do not have funds to buy fuel to transport the patients to Masaka. The island sub-county lacks a treatment centre.
