President Yoweri Museveni has announced that Uganda’s lockdown will be extended for 21 days (Three weeks)
President acknowledged that Uganda was not prepared for a crisis that has killed several people in the worldwide.
The World Health Organisation has however warned countries against lifting lockdown restrictions quickly even in cases where the coronavirus pandemic may have reached a plateau.
Experts fear that governments will bow to economic and social pressure to lift their lockdowns prematurely, and warn that such a move could allow COVID-19 to return.
“Lifting the restrictions too quickly could lead to a deadly resurgence,” World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said.
Christian Brechot, Institut Pasteur president and former head of French national medical research institute INSERM, said we must be “very humble and very careful” with a virus that many nations have already underestimated.
“It’s not clear with a pandemic of this scale how everything can miraculously return to normal,” Brechot told France Info radio.
Despite such advice, in the hardest-hit continent Europe — where more than 78,000 people have died from the virus — several countries have already started partially lifting confinement measures.
Germany, which has seen new cases drop and was already less affected than some of its neighbours, appeared Monday to be moving towards lifting restrictions in stages.
