Sarah Mugoya, a sister to Ugandan the Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs Ministry, Patrick Mugoya succumbed to Coronavirus in London on Sunday.
“A Sister to Ambassador Patrick Mugoya- the PS of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has succumbed to COVID-19 in London. May Her Soul Rest in Peace,” reads a message which was sent to Ministry’s staff.
The deceased became the 9th Uganda to lose COVID-10 battle in Foreign land.
Details of Funeral arrangement remain scanty.
According to reports Sarah died in a hospital in London.
Meanwhile in the United States, a one Sulaiman Mugerwa Kigundu together with his brother Gitta Mugerwa both passed away in a New Jersey hospital. They tested positive for Covid-19 last week.
On Saturday, April 4, another Ugandan succumbed to the coronavirus in the United Kingdom.
Luwaga Isma, aged 48, was pronounced dead at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead area of the London Borough of Camden, London.
Late Luwaga becomes the eighth known death of the deadly coronavirus after passing of Dr Labeja Acellam, a medic at University Hospital of Lewisham, UK, late former President Apollo Milton Obote’s grand daughter Sarah Aceng, and others.
According to latest reports, Luwaga’s family has been notified.
Earlier, officials at the London Hospital were looking for the relatives of the deceased.
