In the previous wave, after three to four months, we had as many patients in serious and critical condition as now in two weeks
President Yoweri Museveni said in a televised address on Sunday.
It was announced that gatherings will be banned for 42 days, churches and mosques will be closed, again up to twenty people can attend weddings and funerals at the same time, public transportation will stop between some counties and up to three people can travel together per car .
Schools are closed and courts are also closed for 42 days. Museveni said that The government is temporarily building 300-bed camp hospitals, increasing the number of hospital beds by a total of 4,500 beds. In an African country of 37 million people, there are currently 3,800 hospital beds for coronavirus patients.
The Ourworldindata Coronavirus cases have really jumped in the past two weeks, but as the president has made clear, this is not really the problem, but also the increase in the number of patients in critical and critical cases, with only 37 million there are 3,800 hospital beds to care for coronavirus patients, which is low Too much, and therefore they are forced to shut down the farm so that they can take on some of the burden on health care.
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