Tension As Two Covid 19 Positive Guests Found In Hotels In Mbarara City

By The NLP
Mbarara:  Residents in Mbarara city are now on high tension as two covid 19 positive cases are  found in  hotels in Mbarara city.
During an operation that was  led by the deputy resident  district commissioner, Mr Emmy Turyabagyenyi, confirmed that more than five hotels were closed  and immediately sealed off the premises by police for reportedly hosting guests among whom two of them have been found positive for covid 19.
It should be noted that the “Mbarara District Covid-19 task force on Friday closed four hotels that include Rwampara Suites, Leisure Park International, African Guest House, Golden Monkey Guest House and Acacia Hotel after being suspected of accommodating guests from the neighboring countries which is risky to the public.
He explained that on July 29, a Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) official from Bunagana border point who was travelling to Kampala slept in Mbarara before the test results of h “A URA official spent a night at Acacia Hotel on his way from Bunagana border in Kisoro District where his driver had tested positive for the virus. His driver’s results were released when the two were already in Mbarara for two days. The driver whose results had tested positive slept at African Guest House,’’ Mr Turyabagyenyi said. Another case was a 32-year-old money changer at Mutukulu border point. He’s a resident of Kiruhura who found his way to Mbarara and slept at Leisure Park International Hotel before switching to Golden Monkey Guest House in Kijungu. Rwampara Suites was closed because authorities feared that contacts to a positive case from the neighbouring Leisure Park International Hotel had been accommodated there