A male adult in Masindi District tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday after was confirmed from random (rapid assessment survey) conducted by the Ministry of Health.
TrumpetNews has established that this COVID-19 patient is a Police Officer who has since been isolated with other five colleagues and two inmates.
The Ministry of Health officials have Saturday been disinfecting the police station to kill the virus.
Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga confirmed this development saying they are going to issue a statement later.
The Coronavirus cases have increased to 85 in Uganda.
On Friday Ministry of Health confirmed two cases, the other positive case is a Kenyan truck driver who entered Uganda via Busia border but later returned to Kenya according to the tracking system.
Rapid assessment survey samples are being tested in Makerere University’s laboratory.
The Masindi case indicates that COVID-19 has again entered in local communities.
Positive community cases have been extremely rare in the country thus far – with President Yoweri Museveni attributing it to either lack of testing, asymptomatic carriers or lack of recording.
This week, the ministry of Health started rapid assessment survey among high-risk groups to establish community transmission that will determine the lifting or extension of lockdown on May 5.
Previously, testing was concentrated on returnees and their contacts before it was extended to truck drivers and now to high-risk communities including the members of the army, police, Local Defence Unit (LDU) officers, market vendors and the communities along the highways.
Out of 2,454 samples tested at the Uganda Virus Research Institute on Friday, all 399 samples from the community tested negative for COVID-19.
The ministry of Health says to date, a total of 27 truck drivers have tested positive for coronavirus disease in Uganda, 17 of which have returned to their respective countries in Kenya and Tanzania. Kenya on Friday registered 15 new cases and 4 new deaths. Their national tally now stands at 411 with 21 deaths and 150 recoveries.
