Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni says there is no need to impose restrictions in Ebola hotspots in the central region of the country because the viral disease is not airborne.
He says Ebola is spread through contact with an infected person or infected surfaces and human waste.
Museveni further said his government had the capacity to control the epidemic due to previous experience with similar outbreaks.
He said that health experts who had previously dealt with Ebola outbreaks had been deployed to Mubende district headquarters – the epicentre of the outbreak
According to the president, the government would set up a laboratory in the affected region to quicken the sample processing.
This comes after the association of medical workers in the country called for the affected region to be put under quarantine to stop further spread of the virus.
This is the fourth time Ebola has broken out in Uganda.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) says the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Uganda was detected late.
Preliminary investigations suggest that the patient could have developed symptoms in August but it was not immediately picked up as an Ebola case.
Authorities in the East African nation declared an outbreak last week after the country reported its first fatality from the virus since 2019.
24 people have so far been confirmed to be infected by Ebola in the country, five of whom have since died.
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