Coronavirus – UNICEF Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report No. 7: July-August 2020
Highlights
Uganda confirmed
3,074 cases of COVID-19 among Ugandan nationals during the reporting period;
the majority of cases were in males (86 per cent). Uganda’s cumulative COVID-19
caseload included 1,699 recoveries, 32 deaths (with a case fatality rate of 1.0
per cent), and 86 cases in children (representing 2.8 per cent of the country’s
total caseload).A cumulative total
of 4,790,000 children and women continued to receive essential health care
services—including immunizations, prenatal, postnatal, and HIV services, and
care for gender-based violence—in UNICEF-supported health facilities during the
COVID-19 period from March to August 2020.The Government of
Uganda, with support from UNICEF, provided Vitamin A supplementation to nearly
408,000 children, psychosocial support servic...