{"id":1761,"date":"2022-11-28T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2022-11-28T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:17:07","slug":"uganda-extends-ebola-quarantine-in-two-hotspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/uganda-extends-ebola-quarantine-in-two-hotspots\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda extends Ebola quarantine in two hotspots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Uganda\u2019s President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicentre of the country\u2019s Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that his government\u2019s response to the disease was succeeding.<br><br>Movement in and out of Mubende and Kassanda districts in central Uganda will be restricted up to December 17, the presidency said late on Saturday. It was originally imposed for 21 days on October 15, then extended for the same period on November 5.<br><br>The extension were \u201cto further sustain the gains in control of Ebola that we have made, and to protect the rest of the country from continued exposure.\u201d<br><br>The government\u2019s anti-Ebola efforts were succeeding with two districts now going for roughly two weeks without new cases, the president said.<br><br>\u201cIt may be too early to celebrate any successes, but overall, I have been briefed that the picture is good,\u201d he said in a statement.<br><br>The East African nation has so far recorded 141 infections. Fifty-five people have died since the outbreak of the deadly haemorrhagic fever was declared on September 20th.<br><br>Although the outbreak was gradually being brought under control, the \u201csituation is still fragile,\u201d Museveni said, adding that the country\u2019s weak health system and circulation of misinformation about the disease were still a challenge.<br><br>The Ebola virus circulating in Uganda is the Sudan strain, for which there is no proven vaccine, unlike the more common Zaire strain, which spread during recent outbreaks in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).<\/p><div class=\"afric-content\" id=\"afric-2122937739\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/hello?utm_source=ecm-digital&#038;utm_medium=cpc&#038;utm_campaign=lac-dex-2026&#038;utm_content=french\" aria-label=\"French&#8212;300&#215;250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/africaparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/French-300x250-1.gif?fit=300%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda\u2019s President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicentre of the country\u2019s Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that his government\u2019s response to the disease was succeeding. Movement in and out of Mubende and Kassanda districts in central Uganda will be restricted up to December 17, the presidency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Uganda extends Ebola quarantine in two hotspots - Africa Parrot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/uganda-extends-ebola-quarantine-in-two-hotspots\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Uganda extends Ebola quarantine in two hotspots - Africa Parrot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Uganda\u2019s President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicentre of the country\u2019s Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that his government\u2019s response to the disease was succeeding. 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