Uganda, July 7 -- The Uganda Professional Drivers' Network (UPDN) has warned cross-border truck drivers and long distance motorists to stop carrying passengers to avoid transmission of Covid-19 as it was during the first coronavirus wave.
Addressing journalists after a sensitization workshop for truck drivers on July 4, the UPDN Executive Director, Ndugu Omongo, said a 2020-ministry of health report revealed that truck drivers who tested positive for Covid-19 at Elegu border post were being infected by passengers and prostitutes they interacted with along the way.
"Police would force passengers into cabins of drivers causing infections among drivers using Elegu border. The challenge we have with drivers is making them believe that Covid-1...