Tag: EBOLA
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Uganda shortens school term to curb Ebola
Uganda’s Minister of Education, Janet Kataha Museveni, said on Tuesday that government would shorten the school term by two weeks to reduce daily contact amongst students and help curb the spread of Ebola. Authorities have been struggling to contain the highly infectious and deadly haemorrhagic fever since the epidemic spilled into the capital Kampala, home…
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Uganda declares first Ebola death since 2019
Uganda’s health ministry on Tuesday announced the country’s first fatality from the highly contagious Ebola virus since 2019, declaring an outbreak in the central district of Mubende. “The confirmed case is a 24 year old male… (who) presented with EVD symptoms and later succumbed,” the ministry said on Twitter, using an abbreviation for…
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New cases of Ebola recorded in Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed a new case of Ebola in its violence-wracked east, the country’s health ministry said, just weeks after the end of a previous epidemic. The DRC early last month declared its latest Ebola outbreak over, more than two months after the virus re-emerged in the northwestern Equateur province. Last…
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DR Congo declares 14th Ebola outbreak over
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has declared the end of the Ebola outbreak that erupted less than three months ago in Mbandaka, the capital of Equateur Province in the northwest. It was the third outbreak in the province since 2018 and the country’s 14th overall. The World Health Organisation in a statement on Tuesday…