KQ cuts number of flights to Uganda amid Covid-19 cases surge
Kenya Airways has cut the number of flights to and from Uganda's Entebbe International Airport due to low passenger traffic and surge of COVID-19 cases in the east African country.
Vianney Luggya, communications officer for Uganda Civil Aviation Authority, said Kenya's national carrier has reduced the number of flights from 12 a week to nine over low loads of passengers due to strict government pandemic containment measures.
"It's a normal thing because right now passenger traffic is low compared to what it was before COVID-19. So when passenger traffic is low, airlines normally make decisions based on what they think," Luggya said.
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The development comes weeks after RwandAir suspended its flights to Entebbe International Airport, about 40 kilometers south of the capital Kampala until further notice due to a surge in novel coronavirus cases in the country.
Uganda is currently grappling with the virulent second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which continues to devastate the country.
As of July 1, Uganda had registered 82,852 cases of COVID-19, with 54,845 recoveries and 1,910 deaths since the first case was reported in March last year, according to the ministry of health figures.
