Uganda Relaxes Lockdown to Ease Economic Fallout From Pandemic
- Positivity rate for virus falls to 8% from 22% in early June
- Business hubs, transport open under restricted capacity limits
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Uganda relaxed a second national lockdown imposed in early June as a drop in the infection rate allows authorities scope to open up the economy that’s been battered by containment restrictions.
Business hubs, private and public transport reopened with restricted capacity limits as the East African country grapples with the pandemic and the newly dominant delta variant, President Yoweri Museveni said Friday in a televised address from the capital, Kampala.