Jacob Amooti, the Acting Resident District Commissioner also chairperson district covid-19 taskforce revealed on Thursday that the decision is in line with the presidential directives on curbing the spread of covid-19.
According to the nomination guidelines issued by the Electoral Commission, the candidates are supposed to wear masks, have a manageable number of people who can social distance and sanitize.
According to the guidelines, all staff and learners are required to wear face masks all the time. Schools are expected to ensure learners wash hands, observe the recommended social distance of 2 meters and record the body temperature of everyone in the schools.
Daniel Ndagga, the Principal Education Officer says that the team assessed all the 67 primary schools and 13 secondary schools in the municipality. However, 52 Primary and 9 Secondary Schools have been issued certificates of compliance.
According to the ministry of health, the country is only able to detect 33 percent of all drug resistant cases of TB due to the lack of equipment that can test for the disease
By Wednesday out of over 200 education institutions distributed across Masaka district, the assessment team had inspected 174 centers, and had only issued 100 certificates of compliance to schools that passed the compliance tests.
The University Spokesperson, Juma Hassan Nyene, says the decision to send the staff in self-isolation follows the death of Dr. Loiyce Okedi after contracting COVID19 as confirmed by a medical report.
Richard Tabaro, the Kikuube Resident District Commissioner-RDC, says the 13 cases are part of 20 teachers whose samples were collected on Friday last week ahead of the reopening of schools.
Wahid Babyesiza, the younger brother to the deceased told Uganda Radio Network in an interview that the deceased was first admitted to a clinic in Kigumba town with severe malaria two weeks ago and he recovered.
