Lockdown Extension Still a Posibility as Museveni Addresses the Nation this Saturday

President Yoweri Museveni will this Saturday July 31, 2021 address the nation on Covid-19 and other related issues and an extension is still a posibility as New case numbers rise.

Lindah Nabusayi Wamboka, the Senior Presidential Press Secretary said on Tuesday the address will take place at 8pm and it will be aired live on all Television and radio stations in Uganda.

The President’s address comes at a time when the National Covid-19 Taskforce is pushing for an extension of the lockdown.

In an Interview with NTV Uganda on Monday, with a few five days left to the end of the 42-day lockdown instituted by President Museveni, the Chief Epidemiologist at the Covid-19 Taskforce, Dr. Monica Musenero said lifting coronavirus containment protocols before mass vaccination will have repercussions.

She said government aims to inoculate 22 million people, about half of the country’s population, to enable the economy to fully re-open.

“This is a tough time. Its because we are fighting a very dangerous enemy. This walk hasn’t been easy but here we are, we have achieved something together, with the lockdown in place, we have managed to bring down the cases, which were just climbing astronomically and soon we shall start to see a steady decline in death due to Covid-19,” Dr. Musenero said.