Three of the 53 Uganda’s confirmed
coronavirus cases are on road to recovery after testing negative, the Health
Ministry has said. According to the Director General Health
Services, Dr Henry Mwebesa the three patients have tested negative twice after
treatment and will soon be discharged from hospital. “Three cases have tested negative twice
after treatment and are being considered for discharge by clinicians,”Dr.
Mwebesa said in a statement on Thursday. The news of recovery of the three patients
will be a sigh of relief for both government and Ugandans as it will help calm
their anxiety including those who have been infected with the virus on top of
those still in self- isolation. Despite 1,601,018 people being infected
worldwide, the good news is that 354,972 have fully recovered from the deadly
pandemic ravaging the world since its outbreak in the Wuhan city of China last
year. Such success stories of recoveries have
also been seen in neighbouring Kenya and Rwanda. While addressing the nation on Wednesday,
President Museveni said government is currently assessing the impact of
measures on the spread of the pandemic to see if they are lessened but he said
he was happy the country is moving in the right direction. “If we had not acted in time, I don’t know
where we would be now. We are still assessing the effect and we don’t want to
rush too quickly to celebrate that we have succeeded. We are monitoring the
results which may not be conclusive but showing some success,” he said. Uganda has been hailed by the World Health
Organisation over the measures put in place to combat the spread of the deadly
coronavirus pandemic.
