Uganda has confirmed 11 more Covid-19 cases.

The country’s cases jumped from 63 to 74 after 7 truck drivers from Kenya and Tanzania, tested positive.

The ministry of health last night confirmed 11 new Covid-19 cases confirmed.

They named the truck drivers as 6 from Tanzania arriving from Mutukula Border, 5 Kenyan 3 arrived via Malaba and 2 via Busia.

The jump in numbers is scaring to the country given the cases drying up in the recent times.

President Yoweri Museveni imposed a countrywide lock down after the first case.

Museveni closed Entebbe International Airport, banned public transport and closed markets.

He went ahead to ask the population to stay home and allowed essential business and factories to continue work.

The measures which were 37 in number, helped limit the Covid-19.

The President also allowed essential goods from the East African region to come in.

Uganda’s Covid-19 cases came from citizens returning from US, UK, Dubai and some Asian nations.

Many of them were quarantined before being allow into the population.

This helped control the virus from getting into the population.

However, the recent rise in the number of cases is coming from neighbouring Kenya and Tanzania.

They are the truck drivers, who are 16 in number that have tested positive.

The population is growing anxious about the new cases. They want the government to take action.

The national task force is meeting Friday to find ground on how to contain the latest cases.

It is bigger than they can imagine. Kenya and Tanzania have been slow in approach to Covid-19.

They have not been helpful in their fight to help citizens and the region. Both nations just recently embraced lock downs.

Kenya has gone full blown locking down the country. Tanzania have been preaching population to pray.