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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>President Museveni said Wednesday that one of the three Covid-19 tests he undertook in the morning turned out positive with the virus, days after World Health Organisation (WHO) said the pandemic, which killed millions of people and wreaked economic and social havoc, no longer constitutes a global health emergency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis morning, I was feeling as if I had a cold. I took a rapid Coronavirus test which indicated negative. However, my samples were taken for a deeper analysis. One was negative and the other positive. So, I am a suspect of Corona as I speak. That’s why I came in a separate car with Maama,\u201d Mr Museveni said during his State-of-the-Nation address boycotted by Opposition MPs protesting what they described as \u201ccareless spending\u201d, especially on \u201ccostly Covid-19 tests\u201d for anyone to attend the president\u2019s public meetings.<\/p>\n

The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health, Dr Diana Atwine, who’s Mr Museveni’s personal doctor said the president was in “robust health.”<\/p>\n

“Today June 7, 2023 H.E The President tested positive for covid-19 . This was after developing mild flue -like symptoms. However he is in robust health and continues to perform his duties normally while adhering to SOPs,” she tweeted momemonets after Mr Museveni’s address.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Mr Mathias Mpuuga, the Leader of Opposition in Parliament had slammed state house, arguing that testing for Covid-19 before meeting the president was a waste of public resources which could be channeled into other developmental activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to Covid-19 as a global health emergency. However, Gen Museveni continues to waste public resources to specific companies owned by individuals close to the regime on COVID tests whenever he meets people both at his home and other parts of the country,\u201d Mpuuga told journalists hours before Mr Museveni\u2019s address at Kololo.<\/p>\n

Mr Mpuuga then advised Mr Museveni, 78, and his family to take a booster dose if he was \u201canxious about Covid-19.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the address, however, the president said Uganda\u2019s health capacity in vaccine development and other interventions like spreading malaria awareness and prevention had been strengthened over the last three years after the outbreak of Covid-19.<\/p>\n

Early last month, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared Covid-19 over as a global health emergency.<\/p>\n

The move came after the WHO’s independent emergency committee on the Covid crisis agreed it no longer merited the organisation’s highest alert level and “advised that it is time to transition to long-term management of the COVID-19 pandemic”.<\/p>\n

But the danger was not over, according to Tedros, who estimated Covid had killed “at least 20 million” people — about three times the nearly seven million deaths officially recorded.<\/p>\n

“This virus is here to stay. It is still killing, and it’s still changing,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The worst thing any country could do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that Covid-19 is nothing to worry about.”<\/p>\n

Never again<\/b><\/p>\n

The UN health agency first declared the so-called public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) over the crisis on January 30, 2020.<\/p>\n

That was weeks after the mysterious new viral disease was first detected in China and when fewer than 100 cases and no deaths had been reported outside that country.<\/p>\n

But it was only after Tedros described the worsening Covid situation as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, that many countries woke up to the danger.<\/p>\n

By then, the SARS CoV-2 virus which causes the disease had already begun its deadly rampage around the globe.<\/p>\n

“One of the greatest tragedies of Covid-19 is that it didn’t have to be this way,” Tedros said, decrying that “a lack of coordination, a lack of equity and a lack of solidarity” meant “lives were lost that should not have been”.<\/p>\n

“We must promise ourselves and our children and grandchildren that we will never make those mistakes again.”<\/p>\n

Even though Covid deaths globally have plunged 95 percent since January, the disease remains a major killer.<\/p>\n

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