? *HEALTH TORCH UGANDA*?
*LUNCH TIME UPDATES*
*22/04/20*
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*NATIONAL UPDATES*
?????? *Six Chinese convicted for escaping from COVID-19 quarantine in Uganda;* Court in Kampala has convicted six Chinese for disobeying lawful orders on prevention of Covid-19 when they escaped from a hotel where they had been quarantined.
?️ They were convicted upon their own plea of guilty for disobeying lawful orders, an act likely to spread infection of a disease.
?? *Corona: Shs10b for MPs illegal, says Museveni;* President Museveni has castigated Parliament for allocating itself Shs10b out of the recently passed Shs304b supplementary budget to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and described the act as “illegal.”
???? Only Mityana Municipality MP Francis Zaake has declared in writing, informing Speaker Rebecca Kadaga that he would not take his share of Shs20m.
?? *However several MPs have acknowledged receipt of Shs20 million meant to aid them in the fight against COVID-19. This is despite a court order to stay the release of this money.*
???? *Three discharged as Uganda’s COVID-19 recoveries rise to 41;* Mulago Hospital has today discharged three more people who have recovered from COVID-19, bringing the number of patients who have recovered at the hospital to 20.
???? The total number of patients who have recovered from various health centres is 41. This implies that Uganda which has registered 61 COVID-19 since the pandemic broke out, has 20 active cases.
?? *Special birthday shout outs to multi-presidential candidate Kizzabesigye. He turns 64 today.*
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*ACROSS BORDERS*
?? *Global COVID-19 Update;* More than 2.5 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the coronavirus. More than 170,000 have died, with the US accounting for about a quarter of all deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
???? *Germany approves first trial of COVID-19 vaccine candidate:*
Germany's vaccines regulator approved live human testing of a potential vaccine against the COVID-19 virus developed by German biotech company BioNTech.
??The trial, only the fourth worldwide of a preventive agent targeting the virus behind the global pandemic, will be conducted on 200 healthy people aged between 18 and 55 in the first stage, and on further people, including those at higher risk from the disease, in a second stage
?? *Un-American': 400,000 N95 masks 'just sitting' on loading dock!* A US medical supply company is questioning the legality of federal seizures of N95 respirator masks destined for medical workers amid the coronavirus pandemic.
George Gianforcaro, owner of Delaware-based Indutex USA, said the masks, which arrived in separate shipments on April 6 and April 19 are still being held at John F Kennedy International Airport, apparently stranded in limbo as federal officials work out where they should go next.
?? *Coronavirus second wave may be even worse: US health chief*
A second wave of the novel coronavirus in the United States could be even more destructive because it will likely collide with the beginning of flu season, one of the country's top health officials have said.
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