Uganda, June 27 -- Few things are as good at laying bare a country's capabilities and levels of organisation than the way it handles public health emergencies.
SARS-CoV-2, or Covid-19, has at last finally arrived in Uganda. What is being termed the second wave in Uganda is, in real terms, the first, true wave.
Last year, Covid-19 deaths were to most people abstract figures published by the Ministry of Health in its daily updates.
Today, the situation is beginning to feel like the Aids crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s, in which the deaths of relatives, office colleagues, friends, neighbours and former classmates brought home the tragedy to us.
Even with the number of Covid-19 infections across Africa still negligible by internati...