Just like Tourism, the informal Sector was trying to mend its broken pieces when a second lockdown emerged. As a result lodgings reduced to less than 15 percent, generating significant losses for the establishments and to government to which it generates a 10 percent GDP as shown by Daily Monitor. Europe and the United Kingdom which constitute the country’s largest market for her tourism, red listed the country as unsafe to travel to.Ĭonsequently The Hotel Owners Association, revealed that 90 percent of hotel reservations were cancelled when the lockdown ensured. However, the NilePost indicates that scientists believe that the wave is likely to hike in August 2021 before cases steadily reduce.įollowing a country wide lockdown, the tourism sector contributing over $1.6 Billion annual revenue was no exemption from its devastating effects even though foreign tourists were allowed to visit the country. With only five days left to complete the forty two days of the lockdown, The Ministry of Health is already applauding the lockdown for reducing the number of infections to 305 cases daily in the last three weeks. Curfew hours were adjusted from at 5:30a.m -9:30pm, to 5:30a.m to 7:00p.m. In his nation address, President Kaguta Museveni announced a ban on inter-district movements and public transport, Entertainment providers such as bars and night clubs, religious gatherings, closure of schools followed by restrictions on non essential services. In big cities of Kampala and Wakiso, practices of social distancing and hand washing were dumped and livelihoods turned back to normal following the end of the first wave.
Infection rates had spurred to 1000 cases daily as the population continuously refused to comply to the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). With a country in exigency, it was crucial that he paved way before the whole population could be drown in this Second wave of the Pandemic. On the 11th June 2021, the President of Uganda appeared on a Televised Address to the Ugandan public to announce a forty two day lockdown to curb the adverse effects of the spiraling COVID 19 second wave.
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