Gendered Dimensions of The Economic Impacts of Covid-19 In Uganda

Abstract

In Covid-19, the world faces its biggest global crisis for decades. This is evident in the cost of lives lost as well as the overstretching of all resources, human and economic in order to counter the spread and to develop a vaccine. By the time Uganda announced its first confirmed positive case of Covid-19 on 21 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had already declared the coronavirus a global pandemic. In line with WHO advice, the Government of Uganda on 18 March 2020 joined many others around the region and the world to announce measures aimed at limiting the spread of the virus.