Uganda has imposed stricter Covid-19 lockdown measures aimed at curbing a surge in coronavirus infections.
The measures announced late on Friday by President Yoweri Museveni include a ban on private and public transport within the country.
The ban on transportation however exempts cargo vehicles and ambulances ferrying essential workers and sick patients.
" All passenger vehicles are frozen, " he said.
Businesses in the busy Kampala downtown have also been ordered shut with a continuing dawn to dusk curfew still in force.
The measures will last for 42 days.
As of Friday, June 18th, Uganda had registered 68,779 infections and 584 deaths.
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