Masaka Town dwellers have been left in panic after two motor vehicle mechanics were identified as some of the people whose samples tested positive for Covid-19 on the weekend.
The confirmed patients are mechanics working for a businessman in Masaka town, according to Mr Herman Ssentongo, the Masaka resident district commissioner.
Mr Ssentongo, who also chairs the district Covid-19 task force, said the duo could have contracted the virus from the driver of a cargo truck they repaired.
Masaka is among the first districts that recorded Covid-19 cases in late March after a businessman who had just returned from United Arab Emirates infected his wife and a daughter in Nyendo, a Masaka Town suburb.
Masaka Regional Referral Hospital has so far discharged four Covid-19 patients and remains with 21 patients, occupying all the existing beds at the isolation centre.
