First Independent Mena Newspaper
Uganda is grappling with a new Ebola outbreak, marking its sixth detection of the virus, which comes just as a mystery disease is causing growing concern in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A four-year-old child has become the second fatality linked to the Sudan Ebola strain following confirmation of the virus at Mulago […]
A three-week lockdown has been imposed in Uganda’s two central region districts to curb the spread of Ebola, which has killed 19 people since the first death nearly a month ago. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced on Saturday (15 October) he has ordered the lockdown to restrict movements into and out of Mubende and Kassanda, […]
The new Ebola outbreak in Uganda has killed 19 people while five medical staff members that contracted the virus have recovered and been discharged from an isolation unit, the Ministry of Health in Kampala said Tuesday (11 October). According to the country’s health minister Jane Ruth Aceng, five affected districts have seen “54 cumulative confirmed […]
The 15th outbreak of Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) comes to an end as neighboring Uganda races to tackle a virus outbreak of its own, the World Health Organization (WTO) has said. A week after health officials in Uganda declared an outbreak of Ebola, the highly contagious strain of the deadly […]