A health worker takes a sample from a truck driver in Busia for Covid testing. Uganda will begin mandatory Covid testing for all people arriving in the country via land border points. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Uganda will begin mandatory Covid testing for all people arriving in the country via land border points to check the rise in infections, it announced on Friday.
Dr Henry G Mwebesa, the country’s Director-General for Health Services, said they are targetting the Malaba and Busia borders with Kenya, Elegu with South Sudan, as well as Mutukula and Mpondwe. The decision, he said in a statement, follows detection of more variants of Omicron imported from neighbouring countries in travellers who arrived via Entebbe International Airport.
