Tedros said the country had responded promptly and capably, but called for it to reopen the border with DR Congo.
Nearly 500 Ebola cases have now been confirmed in the deadly outbreak raging in central Africa, a WHO overview showed on Saturday, amid mounting concern over the swelling scale of the epidemic. In its daily update on the situation, the World Health Organization tallied 452 confirmed cases, including 82 deaths, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), where the outbreak was declared three weeks ago. In neighbouring Uganda, meanwhile, it counted 19 confirmed cases, including two deaths. The...
Ebola border shutdown leaves goods rotting between Uganda and DRC
Uganda has closed its border with neighbouring DR Congo for four weeks in an effort to contain an Ebola outbreak.
Ugandan authorities on Wednesday ordered the closure of the border with Congo “with immediate effect” as suspected cases surge near 1,000 in its neighbour of a rare type of Ebola and as others emerge at home. The measure, which goes against World Health Organization guidance, underscored growing fears of contagion in this East African country that, like Congo, has experience responding to Ebola outbreaks but is faced with a type this time, Bundibugyo, with no approved medicines or vaccines. A...
Bunia faces isolation amid Ebola outbreak fears, with airspace closure and Ugandan border curbs adding economic strain.
A 28-year-old woman from Uganda, who developed mild symptoms including body ache, was shifted from a hotel to the State-run Epidemic Diseases Hospital on May 26
Bengaluru District Surgeon and Medical Superintendent of the hospital, Anil Kumar Banagar, said the woman, suspected to have developed symptoms, had recently travelled from Uganda to Ahmedabad and had later arrived in Bengaluru
The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading as cases been confirmed in Uganda.
Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) updated the death toll from the Ebola outbreak to 204 late on Saturday, hours after the Red Cross said three volunteers had died there and Uganda confirmed three new Ebola cases. A health ministry statement said 204 deaths had been recorded in three provinces of the vast Central African country, from 867 suspected cases. The last World Health Organization (WHO) toll on Friday put the number of deaths at 177 from 750 suspected cases. The WHO has...
As of May 23, the total reported death toll from the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola has risen to 216. The total number of cases, including suspected and confirmed, stands at 968
With almost 750 suspected Ebola cases in the DRC, health measures intensified along the DRC–Uganda border
Union Health Ministry officials clarified that no case of Ebola has been detected in India so far; it advised passengers to watch out for symptoms such as fever, weakness, headache, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, sore throat and unexplained bleeding
AU says India-Africa Forum Summit on track. US Embassy in Uganda stops visa service
A rare Ebola outbreak that may have circulated undetected in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo for several weeks has exposed the difficulty of detecting deadly viruses in regions where malaria, typhoid and other fever-causing illnesses were common and health systems were stretched thin. About 350 suspected cases and 91 deaths have been reported in northeastern DR Congo, the country’s health minister Roger Kamba said on Sunday, while neighbouring Uganda has confirmed two infections,...
Hong Kong authorities should step up preventive measures and issue a travel alert to warn residents against visiting parts of central Africa as an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda threatens to worsen, an infectious disease expert has said. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday. Soon after, the Hong Kong government announced it would strengthen health screenings of incoming passengers at the...
The World Health Organization declares the epidemic a global health emergency.
DR Congo accounts for all except two of the suspected cases, both of which were reported in neighbouring Uganda.