No, Ugandan President Museveni has not been admitted to the ICU.

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President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has been hospitalized to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) due to his deteriorating health.

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The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is False.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We contacted Ugandan journalists, who denied that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had been hospitalized to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and required oxygen support.

President Museveni further denied accusations that he was taken to the ICU in a tweet on June 13, 2023, since he was diagnosed with COVID-19 on June 7 and that he had never set foot in the ICU.

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No, Ugandan President Museveni has not been admitted to the ICU.

President Yoweri Museveni said in his daily address to the nation on Tuesday that he had been in the hospital since he was diagnosed with Covid-19 on June 7 but disputed claims circulating on social media regarding his health condition, that he had been in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

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