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Serikali ya Uganda ipo katika presha kubwa ya kusambaa kwa Virusi vya #Ebola baada ya wanafunzi 6 kukutwa na maambukizi jijini hapo.
Idadi hiyo inafanya jumla ya waliokutwa na maambukizi #Kampala kufika 15 kwa mujibu wa Waziri wa Afya, Jane Ruth Aceng ikiwa ni siku chache tangu Serikali hiyohiyo kudai kuwa hakuna ongezeko la maambukizi jijini hapo.
Tangu mlipuko huo utokee #Uganda, Septemba 20, 2022 katika Mji wa Mubende, umesambaa Wilaya 7, watu 109 wakipata maambukizi na 30 kati yao wakifariki Dunia.
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Ugandan gov’t under fire as Ebola outbreak spreads in Kampala
Health experts say the government’s response to the outbreak has been slow and inept, allowing infections to spread.
The Ugandan government is under pressure to bring an escalating Ebola outbreak under control, after the health minister announced that six schoolchildren in the capital city, Kampala, have tested positive for the virus.
At least 15 people in Kampala are now confirmed to have been infected with Ebola, according to a statement by Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng on Wednesday – just days after the government insisted there were no infections in the capital.
The Ugandan government is under pressure to bring an escalating Ebola outbreak under control, after the health minister announced that six schoolchildren in the capital city, Kampala, have tested positive for the virus.
At least 15 people in Kampala are now confirmed to have been infected with Ebola, according to a statement by Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng on Wednesday – just days after the government insisted there were no infections in the capital.
Uganda endured one of the longest COVID-19 lockdowns in the world.
The government first confirmed an outbreak of the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus on September 20 in Mubende District, 145km (90 miles) from Kampala. As of Wednesday, the virus had spread to seven Ugandan districts in total, infecting 109 people and leading to 30 deaths, according to Aceng.
However, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni only announced a three-week lockdown on October 15 in two of the most-affected districts and put Kampala, the capital city, on high alert in a bid to contain the virus.
It is the fifth time Uganda has experienced an Ebola outbreak since the turn of the century. An outbreak in the year 2000 killed more than 200 people.
Samuel Etajak, an epidemiology researcher at Makerere University School of Public Health, told Al Jazeera that the government has struggled to contain this outbreak in part due to a failure to quickly trace contacts and keep them under observation.
“For an epidemic response, you need a lot of logistical support. For example, you need vehicles to transport field teams doing case investigations, who are doing contact tracing, who are doing evacuations of suspected cases,” he said.
Source: Reuters
Idadi hiyo inafanya jumla ya waliokutwa na maambukizi #Kampala kufika 15 kwa mujibu wa Waziri wa Afya, Jane Ruth Aceng ikiwa ni siku chache tangu Serikali hiyohiyo kudai kuwa hakuna ongezeko la maambukizi jijini hapo.
Tangu mlipuko huo utokee #Uganda, Septemba 20, 2022 katika Mji wa Mubende, umesambaa Wilaya 7, watu 109 wakipata maambukizi na 30 kati yao wakifariki Dunia.
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Ugandan gov’t under fire as Ebola outbreak spreads in Kampala
Health experts say the government’s response to the outbreak has been slow and inept, allowing infections to spread.
The Ugandan government is under pressure to bring an escalating Ebola outbreak under control, after the health minister announced that six schoolchildren in the capital city, Kampala, have tested positive for the virus.
At least 15 people in Kampala are now confirmed to have been infected with Ebola, according to a statement by Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng on Wednesday – just days after the government insisted there were no infections in the capital.
The Ugandan government is under pressure to bring an escalating Ebola outbreak under control, after the health minister announced that six schoolchildren in the capital city, Kampala, have tested positive for the virus.
At least 15 people in Kampala are now confirmed to have been infected with Ebola, according to a statement by Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng on Wednesday – just days after the government insisted there were no infections in the capital.
Uganda endured one of the longest COVID-19 lockdowns in the world.
The government first confirmed an outbreak of the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus on September 20 in Mubende District, 145km (90 miles) from Kampala. As of Wednesday, the virus had spread to seven Ugandan districts in total, infecting 109 people and leading to 30 deaths, according to Aceng.
However, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni only announced a three-week lockdown on October 15 in two of the most-affected districts and put Kampala, the capital city, on high alert in a bid to contain the virus.
It is the fifth time Uganda has experienced an Ebola outbreak since the turn of the century. An outbreak in the year 2000 killed more than 200 people.
Samuel Etajak, an epidemiology researcher at Makerere University School of Public Health, told Al Jazeera that the government has struggled to contain this outbreak in part due to a failure to quickly trace contacts and keep them under observation.
“For an epidemic response, you need a lot of logistical support. For example, you need vehicles to transport field teams doing case investigations, who are doing contact tracing, who are doing evacuations of suspected cases,” he said.
Source: Reuters
