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COVID-19 UPDATE: Govt considers relay driving, rapid testing as more truck drivers test positive of Covid-19

GEORGE OKELLO | PML Daily Senior CorrespondentbyGEORGE OKELLO | PML Daily Senior Correspondent
April 24, 2020
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Uganda is at very high stake of getting more coronavirus contacts as several truck drivers have tested positive (PHOTO/Courtesy).

KAMPALA – Government has revealed that it is considering a number of measures to control entry of cross-border cargo truck drivers as most of them continue to test positive of COVID-19.

Jeje Odongo, minister of internal affairs told reporters at the Uganda Media Centre that while the country is sacrificing to keep the spread of COVID-19 minimal, the efforts are being undermined by imported cases.

Odongo said that on Tuesday this week the country had 56 cases but the number jumped to 61 on Wednesday on account of five cross-border truck drivers, four from Kenya and the other from Tanzania.

The minister said the national task force is studying possible remedial actions.

One of the measures is relay driving, whereby a driver from a neighboring country hands over the vehicle to a Ugandan driver at the border crossing after the vehicle has been sanitized. The Ugandan driver will take the cargo to the final destination. In case the cargo is transiting through, the Ugandan driver similarly hands over the truck to another driver at the border crossing after the vehicle is sanitized.

Internal Affairs minister Gen. Jeje Odong (PHOTO/File).

The other measure that is being discussed, according to the minister, is deploying rapid test kits at the border so that the results are obtained before the driver proceeds within the journey. Odongo however noted that this may be prohibitive since each test costs 65 U.S. dollars and there are three people in the truck. An average of 1,000 trucks cross into the country daily.

The other possible measure is to have the drivers park in designated areas to limit their interaction with the public.

Uganda allowed the continued operation of cross-border cargo trucks, trains and air cargo despite closing all its border entry points. The move according to government is aimed at not stalling the running of the economy.

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