146SharesIn a bid contian further spread of covid-19 in uganda, government is considering tasking measures which include making truck drivers who enter Uganda stop at the border and hand over their vehicles to their counterparts in Uganda to drive to the final destination. This comes after Uganda successfully contained the spread of Covid-19 but continued […]
In a bid contian further spread of covid-19 in uganda, government is considering tasking measures which include making truck drivers who enter Uganda stop at the border and hand over their vehicles to their counterparts in Uganda to drive to the final destination.
This comes after Uganda successfully contained the spread of Covid-19 but continued registering coronavirus confirmed cases from truck drivers who enter the country
In the past few days Kenya and Tanzanian truck drivers inflated the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Uganda to now 63 from 55 where Uganda had flattened the curve
Today the Minister of Internal Affairs Gen Jeje Odongo told reportwers at the Uganda Media Center that Uganda is considering relay driving to contain the spread of Covid-19
”There is now a discussion of what we call relay driving.It meas if a driver is coming from Mombasa for example, that driover will drive up to the border Malaba or Busia. he will stop there.We santitize the vehicle and it is handed over to his counterpart here in Uganda. The driver will then drive the truck to it’s final destination” said Jeje
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