With accumulating concerns that a number of Ugandan migrant workers traveling to the Middle East have been using fake COVID-19 test certificates prior to travel, the Ugandan government has ordered for the retesting of all migrant workers going abroad.
This comes after a number of migrant workers who tested negative before departure from Uganda later tested positive on reaching the middle East causing a whole state of confusion that forced the relevant authorities to take action so as to amend loose ends.
This has seen the health ministry take centre stage and seek to retest and re affirm all Covid-19 results collected from migrant workers intending to travel to the middle East. According to the Health Ministry, this is being done to ensure that the COVID-19 tests of all the migrant workers meet international health regulations.
While speaking to the press, the ministry’s spokesperson Emmanuel Ainebyoona said that the retesting will be done by government laboratories free of charge.
“A number of migrant workers having forged certificates from Uganda tested positive in the Middle East. We want to end this practice,” he said.
Diana Atwine, the ministry’s permanent secretary, said the exercise is being done to protect the credibility of the health system in Uganda, meet international obligations and stop further blacklisting of the East African nation from international travel arrangements.
Last month, officials revealed that at least 800 people had received counterfeit COVID-19 vaccines by a network which duped many people and companies.
Uganda has officially registered more than 88,000 COVID-19 cases and 2,164 deaths from the disease. More than a million people have been vaccinated in the nation of 44 million.
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