The president; Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has been put in isolation at Nakasero state lodge after testing positive for corona virus on Wednesday.

“By God’s Grace all is well, and I am only experiencing mild symptoms. However, I always prefer to err on the side of caution and self-isolate for now,” the President says.

He has delegated his work to Prime minister – Robinah Nabanjja even up to the Heroes Day tasks today in Luweero. This is to be noted that the president will be in record getting only the second forced leave in the last 53 years, ever since 1971.

“After the very useful interactive retreat in Kyankwanzi, I was already immersed in the activities in Kampala. However, on Tuesday, I started experiencing mild flu-like symptoms. I ignored the feeling and had my meetings in Entebbe as well as working on my voluminous State of the Nation Address,” Museveni’s statement reads in part.

On Wednesday however, when the flue continued, the president was prompted to call his doctors to take some samples to rule out especially the corona virus.

On Wednesday at the State Of The Nation Address In Kololo Ceremonial Grounds.

“They took three samples- one rapid and two PCRs. The rapid one was negative and so was one of the PCRs. However, one of the PCRs was positive. Taking precautionary measures, I traveled to Kololo, with a separate car from Maama’s car as the samples were taken back for reconfirmation. When I came back from Kololo, it was confirmed that I had Corona,” the President states.

The president explains that he has been very cautious of corona virus but until the masks begun to give him eye and throat allergy that he was forced to put his guard down.

In January 2020, the WHO declared Covid 19 as a national Public Health threat and emergency and categorized the virus as an international pandemic on 11 March 2020. Even after the WHO said it was no longer a global emergency years later, the virus continues to spread and still is killing people.

The general public is therefore reminded to take caution, mask up and pay attention to any flue like symptoms to avoid spread and fatality.

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