At least 19 truck drivers from Kenya and Tanzania have brought the virus into Uganda, bringing the total number of cases in the landlocked country to 74.

ends intro

Uganda’s Health Minister Jane Aceng is insisting  trucks bringing goods from Indian Ocean ports to and through Uganda be stopped at the border.

Under a scheme being called relay trucking, they will transfer their cargoes into Ugandan-driven trucks to will deliver to local destinations or drive them on to the DRC and the Great Lakes.

Companies have three weeks to recruit the extra drivers.

Ugandans are on lockdown.

The truckers carrying critical goods like food are considered essential workers.

The post East African trucks being turned around at Ugandan border appeared first on Jean-Jacques Cornish.