With the increasing number of young learners leaving O’level, the Ministry of Education and Sports has cautioned against enrolling those below 18-years of age into health training institutions. Available information indicates that many students are completing the Uganda Certificate of Education-UCE between 14 and 15 years of age. After passing English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology,…
An increase in measles cases in January and February 2022 is a worrying sign of a heightened risk for the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases and could trigger larger outbreaks, particularly of measles affecting millions of children in 2022, according to the World Health Organisation and UNICEF. The risk for large outbreaks has increased as communities…
Travellers moving in and out of Uganda, are no longer required to have a COVID-19 PCR(polymerase chain reaction) test, as long as they are fully vaccinated. The requirement still stands for those who are not vaccinated as well as those who took only a single jab of the COVID-19 vaccine. The waiver was announced by…