The Ministry of Health confirmed that 42 days have passed since the last patient was discharged and that the milestone is “good news.” It was made known on Saturday via the official X account of the ministry.
“Probable] cases (12 confirmed, and two that were not confirmed by laboratory tests were reported during this outbreak. Two deaths, two confirmed and two probable, occurred. The World Health Organization (WHO) stated in a statement that “ten people recovered from the infection.”
The Ugandan Health Ministry received praise from WHO’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for “leadership and commitment” in preventing the outbreak. He congratulated the #Ebola outbreak’s government and health workers on Saturday on X.
Uganda, a country with many tropical forests as natural reservoirs for the virus, has a high rate of Ebola infections.
A male nurse contracted the virus on January 30th of this year, leading to the most recent outbreak, which was brought on by the virus strain from Sudan. No vaccine has been tested for the strain.
Since the country first infected itself with it in 2000, this outbreak was in Uganda for the ninth time.
Uganda, a country close to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is extremely vulnerable to the spread of the disease, with nearly 2,300 people killed in one outbreak from 2018 to 2020, which has occurred in the country.
Kampala, a bustling city of four million people that links Kenya, Rwanda, and South Sudan with eastern DRC, is where the latest outbreak started. According to experts, Uganda has been able to use its years of fighting the disease to effectively control it.
Source: Aljazeera
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