KAMPALA, Uganda
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has tested positive for COVID-19, is in good health and will continue his duties, while getting treatment, a senior health ministry official said late on Wednesday.
"Today ...the President
tested positive for COVID-19. This was after developing mild flu-like symptoms.
However, he is in robust heath and continues to perform his duties normally
while adhering to SOPs," Diane Atwine, permanent secretary at the health
ministry, said on Twitter, referring to standard operating procedures for
handling COVID cases.
Earlier on Wednesday after
giving a State of the Nation address at the parliament's grounds, Museveni, 78,
gave a first hint that he may have contracted COVID, saying in the morning he
had felt a slight cold, prompting him to request COVID tests.
He said two of three tests he
had done were negative, and he was waiting for the outcome of another.
"So I am a suspect of
corona and I am standing here. That is why you saw me coming in separate cars
with Mama," Museveni said, referring to the First Lady Janet Museveni, who
accompanied him to parliament.
At the height of the COVID-19
pandemic, Uganda had among Africa's toughest containment measures that included
curfews, businesses and school closures, the shutting of borders and other
steps.
It fully reopened in February
2022.
During the pandemic, Museveni,
who is vaccinated against COVID, was always been seen in public wearing a mask
and has always conducted his official duties while social distancing and would
often be seen seated alone in a tent on the lawn of his office when meeting
visitors.
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