Mr Frank Baine, the Uganda Prisons Service spokesperson, yesterday said the confirmed case was arrested for defying the presidential directive in Mayuge District and had so far spent four days in prison.

Today (Wednesday), we are expecting officials from the Ministry of Health to come and carry out random sample collecting," Mr Baine said.

Mr Baine said they were alerted after one of the contacts of the confirmed case tested positive for Covid-19.

"One of his contacts had presented with symptoms before he tested positive for Covid-19 so we were alerted," Mr Baine said.

Mr Baine said the former inmate had been in isolation since his arrest, although he said the prison has to be put under quarantine to establish how safe the environment is as they also wait for the Ministry of Health to carry out random sampling.