By Website writer; Uganda President, H.E YK Museveni addressed the nation on the COVID-19 situation on Sunday, June 6, 2021.
Here President Museveni shared the resolutions and measures passed by the National Task Force to curb the new awful wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Uganda.
This was live on different radio and TV stations across the country kicking off at 8:00 pm.
Here is a summary of the new COVID-19 Standard of Operation Procedures passed by Presidential address on June 6, 2021:
- All schools to schools for 42 days effective tomorrow 08th.06.2021 by 8 am.
- All teachers must be vaccinated before they enter the school premises.
- Communal prayers are banned for 42 days. Online prayers are encouraged.
- The public or cultural gathering is suspended for 42 days with the exception of cabinet meetings after thorough screening.
- Travel from category A country is suspended (India).
- Agricultural activities continue because they don’t encourage crowding.
- Non-Agricultural activities allowed to continue are factories, malls, supermarkets with strict adherence to the MoH guidelines.
- Gathering points such as factories, plantations, and taxi parks are allowed to operate with strict SOPs.
- Marriage ceremonies and other functions are allowed to have only 20 participants.
- House parties are suspended.
- The number of persons at funerals should not exceed 20.
- Monthly and weekly markets are suspended for 42 days.
- All public transport from district to district is suspended for 42 by the 10th of June.2021, except between Kampala and Wakiso.
- Essential and emergency transport is allowed.
- Public transport is allowed within the district.
- Cargo trucks are allowed to carry only two people.
- Bars, nightclubs, discotheques, concerts remain closed.
- All sports activities are allowed without spectators, player must have a PCR test.
- All public places must adhere to the sops, encourage people to work from home, encourage 30% presence of staff to work at one point.
- Private cars should have only 3 passengers, should only move within the district, inter-district is suspended.
- Ambulances are allowed to operate normally.
- Shopping Malls should close by 7 pm.
- Pharmacy can operate beyond 7 pm.
- Food markets should close by 7 pm.
- Lodges should operate without bars with strict adherence to the SOPs because drunkards can’t understand SOPs.
- Curfew remains from 9 pm to 5:30 am.
- Boda Bodas to operate until 6pm.
- All the above directives, take immediate effect.
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