Nairobi, October 21- Uganda has maintained that it has no active Ebola cases after Nigeria confirmed an infection in a woman who travelled through the country, saying investigations are ongoing to establish where she contracted the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a statement issued on Tuesday, October 20, Uganda\u2019s Ministry of Health said preliminary information indicated that the woman had travelled to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for business before passing through Uganda in early October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the ministry, she did not exhibit any symptoms while in Uganda but developed signs of the illness after arriving in Nigeria, where laboratory tests later confirmed the infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ugandan health officials cautioned against linking the case to the country solely because the patient transited through its territory. They said the exact location where she was exposed to the virus remained unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ministry also disclosed that Nigeria had yet to provide a detailed account of the woman\u2019s travel movements and clinical history, information needed to support further investigations and determine whether additional contact tracing was necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uganda\u2019s Director General of Health Services, Charles Olaro, reiterated that the country had no confirmed active Ebola infections at the time of the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government said it would strengthen health screening and surveillance at entry points as a precautionary measure. It also urged citizens to remain calm, observe proper hygiene, wash their hands regularly and use hand sanitiser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uganda was declared free of the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak on August 27, 2026, after completing the required monitoring period without recording new infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Nigerian authorities confirmed the infection in the woman after she arrived in Abuja on an international flight from Uganda. She is currently isolated and receiving medical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nigeria\u2019s Health Minister, Muhammad Ali Pate, said authorities had identified 44 people who had been in contact with the patient and were monitoring them as investigations continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The case comes amid an ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DRC, which has recorded thousands of infections and deaths. Kenya has also reported nine cases linked to the wider regional outbreak, prompting heightened surveillance and public health measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uganda says it will continue strengthening screening at its points of entry as it awaits further information from Nigerian authorities to help establish the source of the woman\u2019s infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nairobi, October 21- Uganda has maintained that it has no active Ebola cases after Nigeria confirmed an infection in a woman who travelled through the country, saying investigations are ongoing to establish where she contracted the virus. In a statement issued on Tuesday, October 20, Uganda\u2019s Ministry of Health said preliminary information indicated that the woman had travelled to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for business before passing through Uganda in early October. According to the ministry, she did not exhibit any symptoms while in Uganda but developed signs of the illness after arriving in Nigeria, where laboratory tests later confirmed the infection. Ugandan health officials cautioned against linking the case to the country solely because the patient transited through its territory. They said the exact location where she was exposed to the virus remained unknown. The ministry also disclosed that Nigeria had yet to provide a detailed account of the woman\u2019s travel movements and clinical history, information needed to support further investigations and determine whether additional contact tracing was necessary. Uganda\u2019s Director General of Health Services, Charles Olaro, reiterated that the country had no confirmed active Ebola infections at the time of the statement. The government said …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4424,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions\/4424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}