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Uganda sees ‘downward trend’ in Ebola cases: Health minister

INTERNATIONAL Uganda has recorded a drop in the number of new Ebola cases, with some districts going for at least two weeks without registering new infections, health ministry officials said. The development is a major sign the East African country is having a measure of success in efforts to combat its latest outbreak of the deadly haemorrhagic fever disease more than two months after it was declared. Central Uganda’s Mubende […]

today25 November 2022

International

Uganda locks down two districts in bid to check spread of Ebola

INTERNATIONAL Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ordered an immediate lockdown and imposition of a dusk-till-dawn curfew for three weeks in two districts in a bid to stop the spread of Ebola. Places of worship, markets, bars and entertainment will be closed and restrictions have been placed on movement in and out of the two central districts of Mubende and Kassanda for 21 days. “I now direct as follows: movements now into […]

today16 October 2022

International News

DR Congo announces fresh Ebola outbreak in country’s northwest

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reported a fresh Ebola outbreak in the country's northwest, just weeks before they hoped to declare the end of another Ebola epidemic in the country's east. The appearance of the deadly disease on the other side of the vast country comes as an added blow as the DRC attempts to also battle the coronavirus pandemic. Health Minister Eteni Longondo […]

today2 June 2020

Local

Ebola patient dies in Congo, first case in 50 days

The first person to contract Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in more than 50 days has died, the government said on Friday, ending hopes that the second-worst outbreak of the disease in history might be over. The Central African country planned to declare an end to the epidemic on Sunday, which would have allowed its overstretched health service to concentrate on containing the coronavirus, which has infected 215 and killed […]

today11 April 2020

International News

First Ebola vaccines given as WHO seeks to beat Congo outbreak

A vaccination campaign aimed at beating an outbreak of Ebola in Congo began on Monday in the port city of Mbandaka, where four cases of the deadly disease have been confirmed. Use of the VSV-EBOV shot - an experimental vaccine developed by Merck - marks a “paradigm shift” in how to fight Ebola, said the World Health Organization’s head of emergency response, and means regions with Ebola outbreaks can in […]

today22 May 2018

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