NAIROBI, July 28 (Reuters) – Uganda’s health minister declared the country Ebola-free on Tuesday following the East African nation’s latest outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic disease that infected 20 people and killed two of them.
Fifteen people in the latest outbreak, declared in mid-May, were infected in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo – the epicentre of the epidemic where the number of confirmed cases now stands at more than 3,000.
“Throughout this period the ministry of health maintained intensive surveillance nationwide and no new Ebola cases have been detected,” Health Minister Chris Baryomunsi said.
(Reporting by Vincent Mumo Nzilani, Editing by Louise Heavens, Alexandra Hudson)
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