Uganda Denies Active Ebola Cases, Says Abuja Patient Only Transited Through Country

Uganda’s Ministry of Health has said it has no confirmed active Ebola cases, clarifying that the Nigerian woman diagnosed with the disease in Abuja travelled through the East African country after visiting the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
In a statement issued on Tuesday and signed by Charles Olaro, the ministry’s director-general of health services, the Ugandan government said the woman travelled to eastern DRC for business before transiting through Uganda in early October.
According to the ministry, the woman did not show symptoms while in Uganda but developed them after arriving in Nigeria.
It stressed that her passage through Uganda did not establish that she ...