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Long-distance truck drivers and the increasing risk of COVID-19 spread in Uganda

OBJECTIVE: To examine the patterns of COVID-19 transmission in Uganda. METHODS: We reviewed ten weeks of press releases from the Uganda Ministry of Health from the day when the first case was announced, March 22, through May 29, 2020. We obtained the press releases from the MoH website and the Twitt...

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Autores principales:	Bajunirwe, Francis, Izudi, Jonathan, Asiimwe, Stephen
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020
Materias:	Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32615323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.085

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