Ministry of Health experts will today commence the screening for Covid-19 from all Members of Parliament and the parliamentary staff, Speaker Rebecca Kadaga announced Wednesday.

During her communication at the start of plenary sitting, Ms Kadaga said that Parliament cannot be left out after there have been rounds of testing for the ministers who continue to mix with untested MPs.

“Starting from tomorrow at our medical centre here, you can go and get tested but we shall have to cluster it because we cannot have all of you there and the Clerk will organize,” she said.

Since March when the plenary sittings were first held in the conference hall after abandoning the main chambers in order to maintain social distancing, the MPs have been calling for their routine testing but arrangements have not been made.

A number of MPs were even pointed out for having walked to the House after returning from category one countries before the Airport was closed on March 22. The MPs including two state ministers whose husbands (also MPs) had returned from abroad were sent on 14-day self-isolation and were only re-admitted to Parliament upon producing a health certificate with Covid-19 negative results.

Ms Hellen Kawesa, the Acting Director for Information and Public Affairs told Daily Monitor that this round of screening for MPs and staff is being done on the advice of the Ministry of Health and the National Task Force.