Socio-economic impact of Covid-19 in Uganda

Author:
UNDP
Publisher:
United Nations Development Programme
Publication Date:
5 October 2020
Tags:
Uganda, Coronavirus, Governance

Only nine days since the first case was recorded on March 21, 2020, by March 30 the cases had risen to 33. As witnessed in other African countries, the number of new infections is likely to continue to rise; this was seen in countries such as Ghana (27 cases on March 24, increased to 137 on March 29) and Rwanda (17 on March 23, increased to 60 on March 29). A four-week lockdown, based on these assumptions, could cause as many as 1.7 million additional Ugandans to fall into poverty.

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