Uganda's Health minister Jane Ruth Aceng has on Monday announced 8 new cases of coronavirus in the country. Uganda recorded her first coronavirus case on Saturday last week. Aceng says all the new cases are Ugandan nationals who travelled from Dubai (two on March 20 and 6 on March 22) aboard Emirates and Ethiopian flights. The minister said the 8 new cases were got from the 35 samples tested on Monday at the Uganda Virus Research Institute. The minister said Dubai was not regarded as a high-risk country according to the international situation report but all Uganda's cases are people who travelled to Dubai and used Ethiopian and Emirates flights.

Source: Ethiopian News March 23, 2020 21:34 UTC