WHO declares Uganda Ebola-free after 42-day monitoring period: DRC outbreak accelerates
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WHO declares Uganda Ebola-free after 42-day monitoring period: DRC outbreak accelerates
WHO warns Congo Ebola outbreak far from controlled as cases rise across six provinces
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The World Health Organization declared Uganda free of Ebola on Tuesday, confirming the country had completed the mandatory 42-day monitoring period without new cases. The announcement followed Uganda’s own declaration on July 28 that its outbreak was over, based on national assessments of transmission chains and virus dynamics.
Uganda reported 20 Ebola infections during the outbreak, with the last confirmed case recorded on June 21. Two deaths were attributed to the virus. The final patient was discharged from Mulago National Referral Isolation Centre on July 16. Diana Atwine, permanent secretary for Uganda’s Health Ministry, urged countries that imposed travel restrictions on Uganda to lift them, stating, “Unless they have other reasons, they should definitely lift the restrictions off the country, and Ugandans should be free to travel to any country” .
The WHO’s representative for Uganda, Kasonde Mwinga, noted that Uganda was supporting treatment and laboratory capacity at two sites across the border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri province, where the Ebola outbreak is accelerating. As of August 25, the DRC had recorded 5,656 confirmed cases and 2,715 deaths, according to data cited by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control .
Uganda shares an 877-kilometer border with the northeast part of the DRC, where Ituri province remains the epicenter of the outbreak. The WHO’s declaration came after a joint news conference with Uganda’s Ministry of Health, formalizing the end of the monitoring period. Atwine emphasized that Uganda had met all WHO guidelines for declaring the outbreak over, though the global health body required the full 42-day wait as standard procedure .
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