PANORAMA: How Uganda sleepwalked into the second wave of COVID-19

Uganda’s Covid-19 response in its early days, received global plaudits when the country registered a few cases as the regime enforced stringent lockdown measures and ramped up testing and contact tracing, while billions of shillings were allocated for multi-sectoral interventions—particularly to revive the moribund health sector. Fast forward a year later, a deadly resurgence that reached new heights necessitating a second lockdown running until July 30 prompted soul-searching on how the country sleepwalked into this crisis seemingly ill-prepared.