{"id":12932,"date":"2021-06-25T17:21:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T17:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=12932"},"modified":"2021-06-25T17:02:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T17:02:35","slug":"mbarara-city-gets-boost-in-covid-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/mbarara-city-gets-boost-in-covid-fight","title":{"rendered":"Mbarara City gets boost in Covid fight"},"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>Nile Breweries Limited (NBL) on Wednesday donated 1,500 litres of fuel to Mbarara City Covid-19 taskforce to help in the implementation of presidential directives and evacuating positive cases from villages to hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The environment and safety manager at NBL plant in Mbarara City, Mr Adam Wilson Emaru, said Covid-19 cases are on the rise yet the taskforces are facing logistical challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are putting hands together to facilitate the health workers who are actually supposed to move from their homes every day to attend to Covid-19 patients; we also want to facilitate the task forces in terms of movement from area to area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>NBL director David Valencia added that the donation will ease transportation of the Covid-19 taskforce teams, distribution of vaccines and contact tracing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTimes such as these call for individuals, communities, public and private sectors to rally together in efforts to fight the fast-spreading disease and support each other. It shows the strength in the community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Valencia said the company will also support Covid-19 taskforces in Jinja, Kampala, and Buikwe.<\/p>\n<p>Mbarara District deputy internal security officer Nicolas Tumwesigye, who represented the city resident commissioner, at the handover function, said security teams had challenges of fuel while implementing presidential directives in the city, which had increased complacency in the communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur good partners at Nile Breweries have really filled up a very big gap and we call upon other partners in the region to borrow a leaf,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Appeal<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mr Tumwesigye said the fight against Covid-19 is everyone\u2019s responsibility. \u201cIt is not a war of only the government but for all of us, both in forces, medical practitioners and even the business community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tumwesigye said despite surging numbers of positive cases, there are people who are still taking Covid-19 as a joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou find some people are not putting on masks and social distancing, and that is how they end up getting Covid-19, so our people still need a lot of sensitisation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 37 Covid-19 patients are admitted to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Nile Breweries Limited (NBL) on Wednesday donated 1,500 litres of fuel to Mbarara City Covid-19 taskforce to help in the implementation of presidential directives and evacuating positive cases from villages to hospitals. The environment and safety manager at NBL plant in Mbarara City, Mr Adam Wilson Emaru, said Covid-19 cases are on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-12932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mbarara City gets boost in Covid fight - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nile Breweries Limited (NBL) on Wednesday donated 1,500 litres of fuel to Mbarara City Covid-19 taskforce to help in the ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/mbarara-city-gets-boost-in-covid-fight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mbarara City gets boost in Covid fight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nile Breweries Limited (NBL) on Wednesday donated 1,500 litres of fuel to Mbarara City Covid-19 taskforce to help in the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/mbarara-city-gets-boost-in-covid-fight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-25T17:21:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/06\/img-60d60c0c64d69.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/mbarara-city-gets-boost-in-covid-fight#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/mbarara-city-gets-boost-in-covid-fight\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mbarara City gets boost in Covid fight\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-25T17:21:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/mbarara-city-gets-boost-in-covid-fight\"},\"wordCount\":354,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/mbarara-city-gets-boost-in-covid-fight#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/06\/img-60d60c0c64d69.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/mbarara-city-gets-boost-in-covid-fight#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/mbarara-city-gets-boost-in-covid-fight\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/mbarara-city-gets-boost-in-covid-fight\",\"name\":\"Mbarara City gets boost in Covid fight - 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