The Ministry of Health of Uganda, on Tuesday, said that the country now had only two hospitalised COVID-19 patients – a sharp decline when compared to the 435 patients admitted earlier this year.
The ministry’s Director of Clinical Services, Dr Charles Olaro, revealed this to newsmen on Tuesday, NTV Kenya reports.
He said that the two remaining patients were currently at St Mary’s Hospital, Lacor, a private non-profit facility in the Gulu district, Northern region of Uganda.
Recently, there has been a steady decline in the number of confirmed cases of the pandemic.
Health experts attributed the decline to the increase in COVID-19 vaccination coverage and the mild Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
According to the health ministry, “The uptake of vaccination has been good and there are preventive measures that people are observing individually, although people are throwing away masks. Vaccination may not stop you from getting infected but if you get the infection, it will be mild.”
It added that at least 14.5 million Ugandans had so far received their first dose, while nine million were fully vaccinated, following recent statistics.
The drop in the number of hospitalised patients is recorded at a time when the country is witnessing a rapid decline in daily reported new cases of infections.
Analysts said in the last three days, an average of four new cases per day, which was also a sharp decline when compared to 1,423 cases reported on January 1, the highest number recorded in one day this year.
With few people catching the infection and getting hospitalised, the cumulative number of deaths has stagnated at 3,596 in the last six days.
Monitor
