‘A great day for the country’: Uganda declares an end to Ebola outbreak

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‘A great day for the country’: Uganda declares an end to Ebola outbreak
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Control measures including lockdowns have halted the spread of the virus after less than four months

, less than four months after cases were first reported.

The country has reported no new infections in more than 42 days – twice the maximum incubation period of the virus, a World Health Organization benchmark for a country to be declared Ebola-free. The latest outbreak of the Sudan strain of the virus was one of the worst Uganda has experienced in two decades. There is currentlyThe outbreak began in Mubende district in central Uganda and spread to neighbouring Kassanda. Cases were also reported in the capital, Kampala. The two districts were placed under months-long lockdowns.

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