Uganda calls for travel restrictions to be lifted after last Ebola patient discharged

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Uganda has discharged its last confirmed Ebola patient and lobbied for lifting travel restrictions. The country has begun a WHO-mandated 42-day countdown to declare the outbreak officially over as Ebola cases rise in neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Country begins 42-day countdown to outbreak being declared officially over, as numbers continue to rise in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo Uganda has started lobbying countries to lift Ebola-related travel restrictions after discharging its last confirmed Ebola patient from hospital. The discharge of a Congolese national from the Mulago national referral hospital’s isolation centre in Kampala on Thursday triggered the start of a 42-day countdown required by the World Health Organization before Uganda can officially be declared Ebola-free, provided no new infections are detected. Continue reading...