Government extends deadline for distributing Covid-19 relief cash to the valunareble

Government has extended the deadline of dispatching the Shs 100,000 to vulnerable persons to Friday July 16.

This is to enable verification of the remaining 150,000 beneficiaries whose details do not tally with their telephone numbers and NIN numbers.

The Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja also told Parliament that government had embarked on the process of looking for Shs 1.3 trillion in preparation for the anticipated third wave of Covid-19.

The distribution exercise of the Covid-19 relief cash, intended to benefit 500,000 people, started last week but there have been numerous challenges which have delayed the exercise.

Last week on Thursday Nabbanja  launched the distribution of COVID-19 relief funds to vulnerable citizens as the country remains under lockdown in a bid to curb the spread of the virus

These include bus/taxi drivers and conductors, baggage carriers, wheelbarrow pushers, touts, traffic guides and loaders in the taxi, bus parks and stages and other major commercial centres such as Kikuubo, barmen, djs, barmaids, waiters and bouncers, bar gym and restaurant workers, food vendors in bus, taxi parks and arcades, artists including musicians, comedians, producers and promoters, boda boda riders, special hire drivers and Uber drivers, saloons, massage parlour workers, teachers and support staff in private schools and teachers in government schools not on the government payroll and car washers.