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Facebook Launches Shops to Support Businesses During Lockdown

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Davis Kawalya
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In a bid to support businesses during the Coronavirus Pandemic and the massive lockdown happening in many countries around the globe, Facebook has launched Shops

Facebook is making a major new push into e-commerce. The company today announced the launch of Shops, a way for businesses to set up free storefronts on Facebook and Instagram. The shops, which will be powered by third-party services, including Shopify, BigCommerce, and Woo, are designed to turn the social network into a top-tier shopping destination.

In a live stream, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said expanded e-commerce would be important to begin rebuilding the economy while the pandemic continues. “If you can’t physically open your store or restaurant, you can still take orders online and ship them to people,” he said. “We’re seeing a lot of small businesses that never had online businesses get online for the first time.”

The launch of Shops comes as stay-at-home orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic have led to record sales for e-commerce companies. The pandemic has also been devastating for small businesses, with a third of them reporting that they have stopped operating in a survey conducted by Facebook and the Small Business Roundtable. An additional 11% say they could fail within the next three months if the current situation continues.

But online sales have been a bright spot for small businesses. At Etsy, where solo entrepreneurs have leaned hard into knitting fabric face masks and baking pastries for sale, revenue has doubled from three years ago. Facebook is betting that bringing more local businesses online will help them to endure while also creating big new business opportunities for Facebook itself.

While Shops are free to create, they could create significant new business opportunities for Facebook in advertising, payments, and other services. Businesses will be able to buy ads for their Shops, and when people use Facebook’s checkout option, it charges them a fee.

Zuckerberg said Shops will improve on the standard web commerce experience by storing users’ payment credentials in a single place that they can then use on any Facebook or Instagram storefront. There are currently more than 160 million small businesses using the company’s apps.

Shops can be found on businesses’ Facebook pages and Instagram profiles, and they can also appear in stories or be promoted in ads. Items that businesses have made available for purchase will appear within the shop, and users can either save items or place an order. (Some businesses enable users to make purchases directly on Facebook, while others will take you to the business’s website to complete the transaction.)

Businesses can handle customer support issues through Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Eventually, the company plans to let you browse store catalogs and make purchases directly from the chat window. It also plans to enable shopping from live streams, allowing brands and creators to tag items from their Facebook catalogs so that they appear on the bottom of live videos.

Facebook is also working to integrate loyalty programs with shops. “You’ll be able to easily see and keep track of your points and rewards,” the company said in a blog post. “And we’re exploring ways to help small businesses create, manage and surface a loyalty program on Facebook Shops.”

Facebook has been dabbling in commerce for years. In 2016, it introduced Marketplace, a destination within the app for peer-to-peer buying and selling. Two years later, Instagram began working on a standalone shopping app, though it was later abandoned. Instead, last year, Instagram added in-app checkout.

Shops will begin rolling out on Facebook today in the United States and are coming to Instagram sometime this summer. Instagram will showcase brands on its existing shop account, which already highlights items that are available for purchase. Later in the year, it plans to add a dedicated shopping tab to its navigation bar.

Additional Reporting from The Verge

The Most Common Mistakes Made By Day Traders Who Lack Experience

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Remmy Bisimbeko
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Get rich and Do it Fast! The lure of the stock market is hard to beat. Day traders tend to focus on stories about blockbuster Initial Public Offerings (IPO’s), which turned regular people into millionaires overnight, or about having a secondary source of regular income to fulfill their dreams and ambitions! But before rushing full throttle into trading in the stock market, traders, especially novices, need to tread carefully. 

The stock market is a highly volatile and unforgiving environment. It needs to be maneuvered with patience and knowledge. It is easy to know if you are right or wrong immediately; your trading results will speak for themselves. In this article, we are going to look at some of the most common mistakes that beginner day traders make and help them avoid burning their fingers in the stock market. 

1. Lack of Knowledge of Financial Markets

A lack of knowledge of financial markets is dangerous. A day trader needs to be prepared and do the required due diligence before setting foot in trading. Do not just fire up your computer, link your trading account, and start trading. It requires time, dedication, and commitment to become a successful day trader. Reading a variety of books and other online resources can provide a good start. Learning from other people’s mistakes can enlighten you on some of the early pitfalls to avoid. Having a formal education background also helps. 

2. Use Virtual Trading Platforms First

There are now plenty of virtual trading platforms, which are stock simulators. They have the same functional set up as a regular live trading platform without the risk of losing real money. These platforms allow you to trade virtually, letting you get a general investing education within safe confines of no real monetary loss. You also get well versed with underlying mechanics of trading like technical analysis, portfolio building, investment types, or trading views. Traders can also play mock games with other similar investors, fostering a sense of competition, while increasing their understanding and knowledge of a trading platform.

3. Not Being Specialized Enough

To do well in the stock market, day trading included, it helps to be specialized to maximize profit. Specialization could be in the different types of securities offered like stocks, options, commodities, index funds, or currencies. They could also be sector-specific like Oil & Gas, Telecommunications, Software, or Automotive. Being specialized provides you an edge, a degree of conviction in trading matters, and a better understanding of charts and tools that are available for analysis. 

4. Being Too Emotional About Money

A lot of traders enter the market with the aim of instant returns and are very emotionally involved with their trades. Many times, traders are afraid of being branded “a loser” by their family or acquaintances and make bad decisions to overcome mistakes, thus compounding the issue. 

5. Having No Plan

Many traders enter the market blindly without any specific plan in place. There should be a specific reason for executing a single trade. Many a time, guesswork can bring short term rewards, but without planning, traders are setting themselves up for long term disaster. As traders come across different scenarios, they need to formulate a plan which will help them mitigate risk and increase profits. 

6. Inability to Stop Trading On Continuous Losses

Although this may seem trivial, many new traders cannot stop trading even upon being hit by a continuous losing streak. It could just be a bad day at the office, or it could mean that your strategy is not the right one. Whatever the case may be, at certain times, it is prudent to stop trading altogether, see if your portfolio is recovering over a specific time-frame and defer trading to another day. 

7. Making Large Allocations for a Single Trade

Putting all your eggs in one basket is another common mistake made by day traders. Whether it is on intuition, a tip from someone in your family, or a single news report, you are taking a huge risk by allocating most of your funds on a single trade. Experience can help to increase the spread of capital allocation, but until you gain it, and are truly clear in your fundamentals, do not behave like a high roller at the casino.

8. Never Expecting the Unexpected

Most first-time traders only think about the big unexpected profit coming their way soon. However, they need to consider the volatility of any stock market. Behind every large windfall can lurk a big loss. Market crashes, events like the COVID-19 pandemic, or geopolitical fallout like trade wars can instantly wipe out gains in your portfolio. 

9. Not Respecting Your Mistakes

No trader has become successful by not making mistakes. A successful trader is one who learns from his mistakes and respects them enough so as not to repeat them. Just by jumping from one loss-making strategy to another without understanding the inherent miscalculations is a futile exercise. 

10. Not being Serious About Trading

Day traders need to understand the implications of not being serious about trading. Even if it a part-time job or a hobby, you need to treat it like a full-time occupation. By not being on top of things, traders run the risk of both monetary losses and lack of confidence. Day trading is not comparable to an online casino or being just another fun-filled activity because the repercussions of not being prepared are profoundly serious. 

Conclusion

We only hear about so-called success stories in stock market trading. Rarely are big failures highlighted. It is easy for day traders to get lulled into thinking that the stock market is based on hunches, gut-feeling, and luck factor. Just knowing the ticker symbol or a using a ‘hot tip’ from an associate is not enough. Trading is a complicated and challenging activity. 

In this article, we have listed some of the common mistakes made by novice day traders. But by being prepared, constantly studying the market, understanding your mistakes, and not looking for an instant pot of gold, every day trader can be successful in the stock market. It is easy to lose oneself in emotions and impulses, but by being disciplined, you are already halfway through your success story. 

Facebook And Google Extend Working From Home to End of Year

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Davis Kawalya
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Facebook and Google have said they will let their employees continue working from home for the rest of the year.

The tech giants have announced plans to reopen their offices soon but are allowing more home working flexibility.

Google originally said it would keep its work from home policy until 1 June, but is extending it for seven more months.

Facebook said it would reopen its offices on 6 July as coronavirus lockdowns are gradually lifted.

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said that employees who need to return to the office will start being able to do so from July with enhanced safety measures in place.

But the majority of employees who can carry out their jobs from home will be able to do so until the end of the year, Mr Pichai added.

The announcement coincides with Facebook’s as more companies start rolling out their back-to-work strategies.

“Facebook has taken the next step in its return to work philosophy. Today, we announced anyone who can do their work remotely can choose to do so through the end of the year,” a spokesman said. “As you can imagine this is an evolving situation as employees and their families make important decisions re: return to work.”

Facebook is still determining which employees will be asked to come in, the spokeswoman added.

The social media platform was among the first tech firms to ask its employees to begin working remotely. Facebook gave employees $1,000 (£807) bonuses for their work-from-home and childcare costs.

The trend for working from home may suit some companies while they redesign their office spaces to cater to new social distancing guidelines. Some employees are nervous about returning to work in the middle of a global pandemic.

Learn How To Devise An Instagram Driven Marketing Strategy While Marketing For Small Businesses

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Boses Muhinda
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Whether you are a home baker or run a store that sells pre-loved clothes or an artist who takes independent commission work – you can categorize yourself as a small business. You might have been doing this for a long time, or this could be your first month, but what stands out as a universal truth is that you need a strong small business marketingplan to make yourself achieve your goals as a business.

With social media as the marketing platform of your choice, you have a great opportunity to delve deeper into finding the best strategy suited for your business. Instagram has over 1 billion monthly users who spend an average of 53 minutes per day on the platform, which gives you a ready captive audience to show your brand and get them to become your fans!

Instagram might seem like a fun and easy platform to market your brand in, but believe us when we say – there’s a lot more to it than what meets the eye. It is not somewhere you can go in and expect to win without a clear plan.

Follow our 3 step guide and make the most of your Instagram presence for your small business!

Find Your Purpose on the ‘Gram

Your brand needs a comprehensive plan on what you want to do on Instagram and how you want to utilize the platform to your benefit. Social media goals aren’t just another marketing term. In fact, they are the easiest way to keep track of how and why you are putting out the kind of content on your feed.

There is no right or wrong goal, and it is completely dependent on what your brand is and what it wants to achieve out of this platform. Your goals help you measure your ROI on the platform and also helps you determine the time you spend on it.

For example, if you are a beauty brand like Colorbar, you might want to showcase your new collections and tell people the story behind each of them while engaging and featuring your customers. Here your goal becomes building a community with your users.

For a local restaurant, the goal becomes building relationships and talking about their latest offers and events. They could be using Instagram to talk about their new menu launch, to feature happy customers, or to promote their new Sunday Brunch with bottomless drinks.

Similarly, for a home baker, the social media goal would be to build awareness and showcase their creations. They would be making features of their best bakes – well-decorated cakes, delicious cookies, and scrumptious chocolates – as well as featuring customer stories about those who ordered from them to build credibility.

The easy way to research and find your purpose on the platform is to follow your favorite brands, your brand’s competitors. You can start by implementing it on your personal profile, and if your experiment is successful, you can find your strategy for your small business.

Optimize your Profile

You might have a foolproof strategy, but what you need is a great content plan to get you the likes, shares, DMs, and comments that’s going to put your business on the Insta map. But before you get down to content creation, you need to create an interesting Instagram profile.

Setting up a profile on the platform is fairly straightforward and easy. Just make sure that you are ticking off all the following checkboxes.

  1. Switch to a Business Profile: Once you switch over your profile type, you can add additional information to your profile, which can be valuable for your business, such as email address, contact number, location, and the industry you fall under. You can also apply for verification, run ads, and view your profile’s statistics.
  2. Choose the best display picture: The Instagram display picture comes up only in a thumbnail but is essential to the identity of your brand. You must use a distinguishable part of your logo or your entire logo on this space to let your audience know that it’s you.
  3. Write a great bio: Your profile’s bio should capture what you stand for as a brand. Keep it simple, quick, and yet, informative without repeating what is already displayed as your industry. This gives your audience what they want to know about you and helps them in making the decision about whether they should follow you or not!

Creating Compelling Content

Sticking to your brand’s visual guideline, you have to create content that is compelling enough for your audience to engage with. While you will be tailoring content to suit what is best for your business, a few common strategies seem to work wonderfully across the board.

  1. Attractive images and videos:Instagram is a visual platform, and hence, pictures and videos which are aesthetic and tell a story will automatically draw the audience towards it. Build a unique color palette, posting style, or shot angle that sets you apart from the rest while maintaining uniformity in your feed.
  2. User-generated content: Your audience loves it when you feature someone who is just like them on your page. Pick out the best of the user content that you receive and post them on your feed. The best way to get high-quality user content is to start influencer collaborations.
  3. Paid advertising on Instagram: Instagram has a well-focused ad interface integrated with Facebook. You can choose your objective from their list, create your target audience profile, and start hitting them with your well-made ads!
  4. Instagram stories: Quick, informative, and fun; these 15 seconder posts on your story can get you the eyeballs that you need. You can engage with your audience here using the poll, Q&A, Questions, and other widgets.
    With great visual content and the right amount of monetary investments, reaching your target audience will be an absolute breeze.

Conclusion

Instagram is a great platform to build your business and grab the eyeballs of your potential target audience. You need to have a strategy for the long term as well as promote yourself both through word of mouth and other social media to grow your Instagram following.

Invest enough time, revisit your strategies, and voila! You will have in hand a wonderful platform that lets you get close and personal with your audience.

GOGP+ is Offering Mental Health And Gynaecology Support Through an App And A Wealth of Experts During Lockdown

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Davis Kawalya
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Many people are definitely going through a multitude of challenges as their day to day activities that often keep them sane have been put on total lockdown in a bid to avert the causes and spread of the COVID-19 Pandemic that has the whole world on tenterhooks.

In the same light, this lockdown has also made it difficult for women who might need gynaecology services to access health centres for support. However, this is about to come to an end as the GOGP+ has come up with a solution that brings you closer to your doctor or psychiatrist.

With a multitude of different health experts readily on video call, GOGP+ is closing the gap between doctors and patients, making it easier for anyone to access the kind of help they need, remotely.

GOGP+ is a Telemedicine application which enables video to video chat remotely connecting those in need of medical assistance with qualified doctors, in a trusted, reliable and secure environment. GOGP+ is a Telemedicine application which enables video to video chat remotely connecting those in need of medical assistance with qualified doctors, in a trusted, reliable and secure environment.

With just a click of a button, one can reach a doctor within seconds. Download the GOGP+ app onto your mobile phone. The app is available in play store and app store, download the app Now from https://bit.ly/2K9UZT2. 

With this application, Patients and doctors can communicate via Video and Text chat, with the ability to upload documents and photos. The GoGP+ App also enables Doctors to review historic consultations, prescriptions and lab tests to maintain consistency of the patient’s diagnosis and treatment. 

GoGP+’s mission is to provide Healthcare for the Masses, by providing accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person with a mobile phone.

Facebook expands Coronavirus Information Center to Uganda and 23 more countries in Africa

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Guest Writer
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Facebook has expanded its Coronavirus Information Center to 24 more countries in Africa including Uganda as part of its ongoing commitment to empowering people around the world with timely and accurate news from trusted health authorities.

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information Center is appears at the top of News Feed and provides a central place for people to keep informed about the Coronavirus. It includes real-time updates from national official sources, regional and global organizations such as the Africa Center for Disease Control, local Ministries of Health and the World Health Organization as well as helpful resources – articles, videos and posts – and tips about social distancing and preventing the spread of COVID-19.

Facebook users can opt-in to the Center to get notifications and see updates in their News Feed from official government, regional or global health authorities.

Facebook’s Director of Public Policy, Africa, Kojo Boakye, said: “Facebook is supporting the public health community’s work across the world to keep all communities informed during the coronavirus pandemic. We are happy to provide nearly every country in Sub-Saharan Africa with its own Information Center so people across the continent have a central place to find authoritative information around COVID-19.”

The new countries where Facebook is launching the Coronavirus Information Center are:

  • Botswana
  • Burundi
  • Central African Republic
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Djibouti
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Eswatini
  • Gambia
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Lesotho
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Rwanda
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Sierra Leone
  • South Sudan
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

The Coronavirus Information Center is already in place in the following sub-Sahara African countries:

  • Benin
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cameroon
  • Cape Verde
  • Chad
  • Côte d’Ivoire
  • Ethiopia
  • Gabon
  • Guinea
  • Kenya
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Nigeria
  • Senegal
  • Seychelles
  • South Africa
  • The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
  • Togo

Weekend plot not locked down for MTN TIDAL users!

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Boses Muhinda
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Before the lockdown, many of us would be gearing up for some great weekend fun. At the strike of 5pm, we would close our laptop lids as we make those phone calls, send messages, drop pins so our buddies can join us, party hard, and later flood our social media timelines with ‘the weekend that was” photos of us having the time of our lives, letting off some steam after a long week on the grind.

However, that is not the case today as we have all taken a step back into our homes to wait for the world to heal. But who says we can’t have fun at home? We can do several things to help calm our raving waves of boredom as we stay home and stay safe. And yes! Music, like they say, heals the soul! It even gets better if you are an MTN TIDAL user!

The Tidal team at MTN, together with both local and international artistes have put together the most entertaining and groovy music playlists to keep you entertained while at home. On the Tidal app, you will find more lockdown playlists than you can consume. And the best part is there is something for everyone! And there is a play list for any mood; Partying, working, exercising, meditation, children’s music and of course the most amazing praise and worship music.

So while we keep indoors, let us live a little and turn up the music with TIDAL!

In case you didn’t get the memo, it is Friday. So feel the weekend set in as it should be. Get ready to unwind and kick off the “work” stress you could have gotten from the work days at home. Grab your favorite drink (thankfully we can order these) and sit back, chill and connect your phone to your speaker as you get the latest dance party playlists off tidal that will help with setting the mood. Don’t get shy to dance like you would if you were on a night out with the girls or the boys. Let’s look at the bright side, this time round, you won’t have to worry what time to order the Uber or how you get home. Absolutely no stress!

Stay home, but don’t forget to stay fit and in shape with TIDAL.

We wouldn’t want you to return to office after this lockdown out of shape simply because all you did was eat, sleep and eat some more. For long many have said work outs not only help in keeping the body fit and in shape rather can also be used as a stress reliever. It is no secret that workouts and music go hand in hand like bread and butter. Let Tidal’s invigorating work out playlists get you breaking a sweat as you whip yourself into shape. The world is waiting to meet your new hot body!

What is Sunday without some Inspirational music form TIDAL?

Your answer is as good as mine. Just another ordinary day. So make yours count by ending the week on a good soothing happy note. Close the week and start the new week in a good emotional place by streaming the best inspirational and gospel playlists from Tidal. So don’t miss out.  Plug in and get spirit filled as you sing along in adoration of God as we pray and continue to intercede having faith that our creator will heal the world and rid us of this pandemic.

To catch up on all this fun, all you have to do is download the Tidal app from your google play store and get a free trial subscription. If you already have the app like me, just dial *165*66# and get a subscription of your choice and get grooving already. If you are street smart like me, then you already know that the subscription that comes with streaming data is the best! Go have a blast. Thank God Its Friday!

Editor’s Note: This a press release from MTN Uganda

Monitor live scores today football with Azscore

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Gumisiriza Garry
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Today, learning about past football matches is no problem. On the Internet, there are hundreds of different websites with a detailed description of the final minutes of a particular match, but among them Azscore stands out.

Azscore is the platform where you can monitor results of matches of various teams from around the world. At the same time, here you will be able to find ordinary and amateur matches, as well as world-famous fights for the cups of a certain country. The site is designed in nice colours and provides users with the following advantages:

  1. Ability to watch live scores today football matches. Usually, you are able to find almost every match taking place in the world.
  2. Past and upcoming events. The lists contain already finished matches, as well as scheduled games.
  3. Football database. This tab has all existing leagues and more. This function is very useful, because thanks to it you can study all the existing teams.
  4. “My games” section. In case you are interested in a particular match, you can start tracking it. After that, it will be added to the “My Games” tab, and you, in turn, will be notified about the start of the game.

Using all the features of the website, you can easily find today live football scores, as well as other information on certain games. Among them are matches that took place a year or even more ago.

Azscore mobile app and sensational match Real va Ajax

You can install the application on smartphones with various operating systems, because it is available both in PlayMarket and the App Store. With azscore.com help, it is recommended to analyze the match of FC Real Madrid against Ajax held in 2019, which gave fans a lot of positive emotions.

The Dutch team was just beginning to take off to the top and met with Real after three victories. In the first match, guests from Madrid scored a goal into the opponent’s goal, which decided the outcome of the match and, as a result, gave them victory. In the next game, Ajax played more actively and scored a goal at the beginning of the match (7th minute). After the next 11 minutes, another goal was scored to Courtois goal by Neres.

Real was getting closer to relegation, and after the 62nd minute all hopes for victory disappeared, because Tadic brought another goal. In the 70th minute, Real managed to play back one point, but this did not help the team. The game ended in a rout for the club, and it flew out of the tournament at the 1/8 stage. The team failed their fans for the first time in three years and did not manage to bring the trophy to Madrid.

Here is The Telemedicine Smart Phone App to Sort Your Health Issues During This Lockdown

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Davis Kawalya
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COVID-19 has brought many businesses to a standstill and even movements have been limited across the country. However, for your health needs, GOGP+ the telemedicine app is here to save you the hustle of walking to a hospital.

Technology is an enabler, it makes life easier, efficient and convenient. One of those enablers in the medical world is telemedicine.  Telemedicine involves the use of electronic communications and software to provide clinical services to patients remotely without making a physical visit to the hospital. GOGP+ is one of them.

“GOGP+ is a Telemedicine application which enables video to video chat remotely connecting those in need of medical assistance with qualified doctors, in a trusted, reliable and secure environment,” said Paul Mwebesa, Chief Operations Officer.

With this application, Patients and doctors can communicate via Video and Text chat, with the ability to upload documents and photos. The GoGP+ App also enables Doctors review historic consultations, prescriptions and lab tests to maintain consistency of the patient’s diagnosis and treatment. 

GoGP+’s mission is to provide Healthcare for the Masses, by providing accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person with a mobile phone.

The app is available in play store and app store, download the app Now from https://bit.ly/2K9UZT2

GoGP+ bridges the geographic gap by linking patients to doctors at the comfort of the homes, without having to move distances to access a doctor.

In light of the Presidential Directive on a partial lockdown due to Coronavirus, this comes as a perfect way to reach your doctor.

The service can be accessed from home, refugee camps and other remote locations 24 hours a day.

The GoGP+ App will play a vital role in providing remote health care and combating the coronavirus. Patients who present with the COVID- 19 symptoms can access a doctor by video consultation wherein they will be advised on what to do. In addition, patients with other ailments will have fast video access to a doctor while avoiding the need to visit the hospital. They will therefore avoid the risk of interacting with people who are possibly infected as well as decongesting the hospitals to allow for the critical to be taken care of.

UGANDANS: Let’s be our brother/sister’s keeper!

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GURU8 Staff
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KAMPALA – According to Ministry of Health, today, Saturday, April 11, 2020, three people who have been completely healed of the Covid-19 disease in Uganda and will be discharged to return home. 

We thank God for this first victory in the national response against the Coronavirus pandemic. It’s indeed a great milestone and a welcome Easter present for all Ugandans who have braved the inconveniences that come with fighting this enemy and stayed home in the past two weeks as the country observes guidelines enumerated by President Yoweri Museveni and the Ministry of Health which are highly important and necessary to stop the spread of the novel Coronavirus.

We also congratulate the country for temporarily flattening the infections curve as all 439 samples tested on Good Friday returned negative — for the second day running! Our cases remain at 53 for Easter, and with continued discipline required of everybody, we should hope for the best.

Although we are yet to hit the epidemiological flat curve, this milestone in Uganda happening at a time when the global case and death rates are still growing on average by 2.68% and 6%-10% respectively, is surely a success worth celebrating!

We, the Online Media Publishers Association of Uganda (OMPA) exceedingly commend all our healthcare workers, the leadership of our Ministry of Health under Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng and colleagues and the technical wing under Dr. Diana Atwiine and colleagues. 

Special mention also goes to the staff of the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) who have done a commendable job in testing.

We also higly commend the political leadership of the country under President Yoweri Museveni and the national taskforce headed by Prime Minister Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda for being focused on the fight against the pandemic.

This concerted and commendable leadership and effort has given the country ability to identify, isolate and test suspected cases on an average of 11% daily. To date, 4,301 cases have been tested.

We also commend the leadership of the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance under Hon. Judith Nabakooba and colleagues and the technical wing headed by Hon. Vincent Waiswa Bagiire for harnessing the media effort towards the national educative responses to the pandemic, which efforts have been key in ensuring that the public gets to grip with the threat that the spread of Coronavirus poses.

We therefore would also like to thank all our media colleagues who, daily dedicate time, resources and valuable media space to keep the masses educated. 

And, to all the individuals and organisations that have contributed materially and financially to both controlling the disease and easing the pain of the knock-on effects of the disease, Uganda is eternally grateful!

We salute all the people of Uganda- for heeding to the government’s advice to #StayHome and #StaySafe. 

We ask you to continue heeding the guidelines of government as informed by the Ministry of Health, until the country overpowers the threat caused by the Coronavirus.

We at OMPA, pledge to continue dedicating time and resources to educate the Ugandan masses — over 50% of whom rely on the internet for timely and updated news, by creating timely, accurate and truthful news and functional information.  

Stay Home and #Stay Safe!

Happy Easter to you all

The Online Media Publishers Association- Uganda (OMPA-U) brings together owners and journalists working in Uganda for 24 of Uganda’s leading online media houses. 

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