Speaker Rebecca Kadaga is startled by the unending infections from track drivers.

The ministry of health on Thursday night confirmed 21 record new cases of Covid-19.

The ministry posted: “21 new COVID-19 cases confirmed from 1,593 samples of truck drivers. This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases to 160 in Uganda.”

They stated: “The new cases include: Ugandans, Kenyans, Tanzanians and South Sudanese who arrived via Mutukula, Busia and Elegu borders.”

Among the new cases are 8 Kenyans, 7 Tanzanians, 5 Ugandans and 1 South Sudanese.

Speaker Kadaga took to her Twitter account to share her worries: “It’s disturbing to note that a bulk of the new #COVID19 cases are from truck drivers.”

Speaker said: “Ugandans locked in their homes aren’t moving but truck drivers, who are testing positive, are going about normal life.”

The 21 new cases take the country’s Covid-19 cases to 160.

President Yoweri Museveni in his recent addresses to the nation, he has insisted truck drivers are key.

Museveni said they move essential goods needed by the population of East Africa.

He, however, used his twitter account to assure the nation that they have a plan.

Museveni revealed: “I had a very long discussion with H.E Uhuru Kenyatta and H.E @PaulKagame  regarding truck drivers. I also talked to H.E @MagufuliJP on a slightly different subject. However, President Kenyatta and President Kagame agreed that we can have a common plan for truck drivers.”

Opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye advised: The trucks that are escalating the problem have continued to move. This thing needed to be managed transparently through parliament.