Uganda bows to truckers’ demands

Trucks wait to enter Uganda at Malaba border in 2020. Ugandan authorities have finally started clearing cargo truck crews at the borders. PHOTO | FILE

Ugandan authorities have finally started clearing cargo truck crews with negative Covid-19 test results taken within 72 hours, to transit through the country.

Uganda also agreed to recognise PCR test results from Kenya as long as they are carried out in one of the EAC Secretariat’s recognised laboratories.