“Since June 2020 when the government partly lifted a lockdown instituted three months earlier to curb the spread of the coronavirus to allow inland travel and domestic tourism, young people have unusually embraced road trips to far-flung destinations. And they have taken the party with them.”
“For years, Ugandan have been reluctant to embrace e-learning, majorly due to big difference in students’ wellbeing and computer/data affordability, but this pandemic has fast-tracked the education system along the digital tracks.”
“In Uganda, where more than 15 million learners were affected by the lockdown, nearly 90 percent do not have household computers while 82 percent are unable to get online.”
“The Health minister Jane Ruth Aceng has confirmed Uganda’s first coronavirus case in a 36-year-old Ugandan male who arrived from Dubai on Saturday at 2.00 am aboard Ethiopian Airlines.”
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