Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has said the country is preparing a 40,000-bed field hospital at Namboole Stadium in the capital, Kampala, for coronavirus patients.The president said the Ministry of Health was initially planning for 9,000-bed facility but he had instructed that the capacity be increased.Uganda has so far recorded 657 cases of Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by coronavirus.

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Mr Museveni said the country had managed to prevent coronavirus-related deaths but warned that as the numbers increased there could be deaths.

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[caption id="attachment_197147" align="alignnone" width="613"]<img class="size-full wp-image-197147" alt="" width="613" height="408" /> Buses have been disinfected after some lockdown restrictions were eased at the beginning of June[/caption]President Museveni criticised some people for not following regulations to social distance by attending burials and weddings.

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He said to stop community transmissions of the virus people needed to be more careful and stay at home if they had nothing important to do.Source: bbc.com

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