President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will tomorrow Tuesday 15th November 2022 address the nation at 08.00PM, according to the statement released by state house.
The broadcast according to state House will be live in all Radios and TVs.
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Meanwhile as the President plans to address the country, Ebola Virus Disease has claimed at least 54 lives in the first 55 days since its outbreak on September 20, the latest situation report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), has shown.
Mubende District, which registered the index case, has since lost 29 people out of the 54 registered deaths.
The report update as of November 10 also indicates that the disease, which has been confirmed in eight districts, has 137 cumulative confirmed cases while the recoveries stand at 65.
The districts include Kassanda, Kyegegwa, Kagadi, Bunyangabu, Wakiso, Masaka, and Kampala.
Mubende and Kassanda, the epicentre of the Ebola disease, have 63 and 47 cumulative confirmed cases, respectively.
Both are under a second 21-day lockdown as a mitigation measure to check the spread of the disease.
Mubende had by November 10 not registered any new case in the last 14 days although it registered a death on that day.
Ms Rosemary Byabashaija, the Resident District Commissioner and the chairperson of the district Ebola taskforce, told this publication at the weekend that they are optimistic that Ebola will soon be contained.
Out of the 2,187 contacts listed in the district, 1,908 of them had completed the 21 days of follow-up and had already been reintegrated into their respective communities, the WHO situation report revealed.
Yesterday, Jinja District recorded its first Ebola death after samples from the patient, who died on Friday at Buwenge Health Centre IV, tested positive for the disease.
Dan Waiswa, 45, a farmer and resident of Kayalwe B Village in the Buyengo Town Council, had been admitted to the health centre following his referral from a private clinic in Buwenge Town Council early this week.
He had earlier on been admitted to the clinic on suspicion that he had typhoid.
Waiswa presented with fever, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, muscle pain, cough, difficulty in breathing and swallowing, and sore throat.
Additional Reporting: Monitor