An Ebola advocacy van drives along Kyadondo road amid the Ebola outbreak and alert in Kampala, Uganda October 27, 2022.An Ebola advocacy van drives along Kyadondo road amid the Ebola outbreak and alert in Kampala, Uganda October 27, 2022., with some districts going for at least two weeks without registering new infections, health ministry officials said.in efforts to combat its latest outbreak of the deadly haemorrhagic fever disease more than two months after it was declared..
“We are seeing a downward trend in the number of cases,” Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said on the localnews service late on Wednesday, citing the absence of new cases in the two districts over many days. “We are also not seeing new cases in Kampala, in the greater Kampala metropolitan area, neither are we seeing cases in Masaka and Jinja,” two other cities, she said.on Thursday that Mubende had gone for at least 16 days without a new case and that Kampala, the capital, had not recorded new infections for at least two weeks.
The virus circulating in Uganda is the Sudan strain of Ebola, for which there is no proven vaccine, unlike the more common Zaire strain, which spread during recent outbreaks in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.The country has so far recorded 141 cases and 55 deaths, according to the ministry.
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