A Female lawmaker has Wednesday tested positive for COVID-19, this website has confirmed.
The patient is currently admitted at Mulago Referral Isolation Unit.
According to information provided to this website by an official at Parliament of Uganda who wished to remain unnamed, this MP is a member of COVID-19 Taskforce.
Contacted for a comment, the acting Director of Communications at Parliament Helen Kaweesa said she will call us back.
Ministry of Health Spokesperson Emmanuel Ainebyona earlier referred us to Parliament for a comment.
Aruu County MP, Odonga Otto also informed fellow MPs on a WhatsApp group that: “I have just been tipped to get out of parliament that Ugandan female MP test positive for Coronavirus…the information should be made public why are they hiding it. She was In parliament yesterday.”
Odonga alleges, her details have been erased from Parliament website and that the matter is being treated as very confidential information.
This development comes high on heels of Speaker Rebecca Kadaga’s announced that all MPs and staff at Parliament will be subjected to mandatory testing for COVID-19 beginning tomorrow- Thursday.
The sick MP is said to have been in Parliament on Tuesday.
By press time, Uganda’s COVID-19 had clocked 1,043.
