Uganda battling Ebola outbreak as two lives lost

Uganda is battling an outbreak of Ebola virus disease that has so far claimed two lives and affected nine, as its Health Ministry, with the support of the World Health Organization, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and other partners, works to contain the outbreak.

The ministry declared the outbreak on Jan 30, after a 35-year-old man who worked as a nurse at a hospital tested positive for the virus following his death on Jan 29. The second fatality was a 4-year-old who succumbed to the virus on Feb 25.

Tedros Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, termed the death of the child heartbreaking.