Of the 84 cases confirmed on Saturday by the Health ministry, 52 were truck drivers who arrived in Uganda from South Sudan through Elegu border, two arrived from Kenya via Busia and 32 were those who had been under quarantine after getting contact with the truckers.
Mr Byron Kinene, the chairperson of the Regional Lorry Drivers and Transporters Association, blames, the increasing infections among truck drivers on physical exchange of documents with the customs officials at the border points.
On Wednesday, he says truck drivers at Elegu Nimule, Busia, Malaba have to wait for two to five days for their results except Mutukula border where truck drivers get their results earlier due to GeneXpert machines that were launched there.
The truck drivers in Malaba protested delayed results last week and closed the border for three days.
Mr Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the senior public pelations officer at the Ministry of Health, says truck drivers with certificates from Kenya indicating negative results are allowed to proceed into the country.
