Africa-Press – Botswana. Last Sunday, the Ugandan Government reported on social media that nine positive cases were detected in the country’s capital, Kampala, reaching 14 in the last 48 hours.
” 23 October 2022, nine individuals were confirmed positive for Ebola” in Kampala and its metropolitan area, “bringing the total number of cases to 14 in the last 48 hours”, said the Ugandan top health official.
According to Lusa, which advances the news, citing the aforementioned professional, Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero, who published on Twitter, infected people in Kampala were in contact with a patient from Kasanda, another district, who visited the country’s capital, at the beginning of the month. October, having died at Mulago Hospital, on the 7th.
Altogether, the Health Minister said that 42 individuals had been identified who had contact with the man, and are now being closely followed.
Lusa also underlines that 28 deaths have already been recorded and 90 cases are confirmed due to the Ebola outbreak throughout Uganda.
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