Tension has erupted at the parliament of Uganda following the results of the tests conducted yesterday showed that over 50 legislators testing positive for the new omicron virus.
It is alleged that the legislators may have been infected with the virus while they were in Dar-el salaam for inter-parliamentary games. Earlier this month over 250 members of parliament together with the parliamentary staff left Uganda to Tanzania to participate in the regional annual inter-parliamentary games.
This has brought fears that parliamentary activities may be disrupted before the legislators break off for Christmas holidays which will start on Friday 24th December.
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Members who tested positive for covid-19 omicron virus are under self-isolation with the health monitoring team from the parliament.
It should be recalled that president Museveni promised Ugandans that the economy will be full re-opened in January 2022.
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OMICRON VIRUS BACKGROUND
The advent of Omicron is ample evidence that we are not yet done with Covid, and Covid is not yet done with us.
To look forward and understand where the virus is heading, we need to understand the origin of Omicron.
One thing we can be relatively certain of: where this variant came from, more will come.
Omicron is unlike any other variant currently in circulation.
The variant carries 60 (50 nonsynonymous, 8 synonymous, and 2 noncoding) mutations compared to the original Wuhan strain.
The three most likely origin are stories are that Omicron emerged from an immunocompromised patient; that it emerged from reverse zoonosis — human to animal transmission followed by animal to human transmission; or that it emerged from treatment of a Covid-19 patient with the mutagenic drug molnupiravir.
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