The government has announced that the country is now in the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic after the number of infections increased by 81 per cent between March and April.
The government has warned of tough containment measures including possibility of a total lockdown, if the situation goes out of hand.
While addressing journalists at the Ministry of Health headquarters in Kampala, Dr Misaki Wayengera, the chairperson of the ministerial scientific advisory committee, said the second wave is going to be more severe and the country could experience what is happening in India.
The Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, said the resurgence is presenting with rising cases of infections among children.
She told journalists that the country has started to experience a significant increase in cases of Covid-19 among the 10-29 age group noting that the health ministry registered a 12 per cent increase in cases among children aged 10-19 years and 5 per cent increase in those aged 20-29yrs.
The government announced last week that besides the Indian strain, the country had also registered four other strains including Ugandan, Nigerian, South African and UK variants.
Dr Aceng said some of the districts hit most by Covid-19 clusters of community infections are Kiryandongo, Adjumani, Soroti, Oyam, Gulu and Jinja.
