{"id":23977,"date":"2022-01-02T15:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T15:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=23977"},"modified":"2022-01-02T14:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T14:39:50","slug":"uganda-imposes-mandatory-covid-19-testing-for-travellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/uganda-imposes-mandatory-covid-19-testing-for-travellers","title":{"rendered":"Uganda imposes mandatory Covid-19 testing for travellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>All travellers and truck drivers entering Uganda shall be subjected to a mandatory Covid-19 PCR test at their own cost at every entry point, government has directed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Shs110, 000, travellers shall test each time they enter this country,\u201d reads a notice issued January 1 by the Ministry of Health through Port Health Services.<\/p>\n<p>The requirement set to come into force following a recent surge in new Covid-19 cases \u201cshall see truck drivers have their results only valid for seven days while in transit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter taking off the samples, clients shall be allowed to proceed and results of travellers shall be sent to their email addresses while truck drivers will receive theirs on smart phones,\u201d the Services informed Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda\u2019s test positivity rate Saturday evening shot up to 23.2%, the highest in over 3 months, as some 1, 867 new Covid-19 cases were reported- extending Uganda\u2019s tally to 142, 604 infections since the outbreak was confirmed March 2020, forcing a return to somewhat stricter restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>About 3, 297 Coronavirus related fatalities and at least 98, 421 cumulative recoveries have been noted by health authorities during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Committing to fully reopening Uganda\u2019s economy from January 2022, President Museveni December 31, 2021 observed that the \u201cOmicron Covid-19 variant is very serious,\u201d warning that he could reverse that decision \u201cif a high Covid-19 dependency on ICU bed occupancy exceeds 50% and once the daily rate of the hospitalization of critically ill patients is sustained at 30 per day for 5 days in 2 or more Covid-19 units in Uganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Government agencies and officials are also urging citizens to \u201cbe safe\u201d in messages circulated on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo out and get vaccinated,\u201d Mr Museveni rallied over 22million Covid-19 vaccine candidates from Uganda\u2019s more than 40million-people population as he closed his New Year address.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. All travellers and truck drivers entering Uganda shall be subjected to a mandatory Covid-19 PCR test at their own cost at every entry point, government has directed. \u201cAt Shs110, 000, travellers shall test each time they enter this country,\u201d reads a notice issued January 1 by the Ministry of Health through Port [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":23976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-23977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","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>Uganda imposes mandatory Covid-19 testing for travellers - 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