{"id":11822,"date":"2021-06-08T18:48:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T18:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=11822"},"modified":"2021-06-08T16:18:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:18:33","slug":"museveni-sports-headed-for-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/museveni-sports-headed-for-online","title":{"rendered":"Museveni: Sports headed for online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Sports, this time, avoided the bullet as President Museveni announced a raft of measures to curb the ongoing surge in Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike March 2020 when the President hit sports, along with many other activities with a blanket ban, this time he allowed sports activities to continue amid tight restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the highly anticipated address was received with relief across the subsector whose observance of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) put in place last year has been wanting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSports events will operate under strict observance of SOPs with no spectators. All players must have a negative PCR test,\u201d Museveni said.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of testing for the virus remains high for not only the majority of sports teams, federations, and individuals but also ordinary citizens. Covid-19 tests range from Shs70,000 to Shs200,000.<\/p>\n<p>Even without the ability to test routinely or do contact tracing on a mass scale, most sports disciplines resumed this year with a limited number of fans allowed \u2013 despite repeated violations.<\/p>\n<p>The sports that had resumed are rugby, netball, volleyball, swimming, badminton, football, basketball, hockey, golf, motorsport, cricket, handball, athletics, pool and kabaddi.<\/p>\n<p>Most of it was well until the National Council of Sports (NCS), last Thursday, unilaterally banned basketball.<\/p>\n<p>In the same breath, Uganda Cricket Association suspended all their activities after the bulk of the national women\u2019s team tested positive days before a planned trip to Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fufa vaccination drive<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fufa recently launched a vaccination drive for its members to help curb the spread. Also, some of federations that have been able to resume learnt a lesson from last year\u2019s blackout, ramping up their ability to broadcast the games on television, radio and online platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Fufa, the biggest federation, already has the Uganda Premier League televised. They have since added the Stanbic Uganda Cup and women\u2019s leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Rugby, basketball and cricket have televised their games online. Motorsport and their sibling, motorcross, have live streams to relay their events but not actual pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Many federations have either not resumed or are unable to relay their games yet, among which are netball and athletics which are regarded as priority sports .ikigongo@ug.nationmedia.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Sports, this time, avoided the bullet as President Museveni announced a raft of measures to curb the ongoing surge in Covid-19 cases. Unlike March 2020 when the President hit sports, along with many other activities with a blanket ban, this time he allowed sports activities to continue amid tight restrictions. 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