By Mercy Imali
Uganda has confirmed its first Ebola case. A five-year-old boy is being treated for Ebola, the first case since an outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo 10 months ago.
“The confirmed case is a five-year-old Congolese child who travelled from the DRC with his family on June 9th 2019. The child and his family entered the country through Bwera Border post and sought medical care,” the World Health Organization (WHO) wrote on Twitter.
Uganda has been on high alert since the outbreak in the eastern DRC. More than 2,000 cases of the highly contagious virus have been recorded, two-thirds of which have been fatal.
Uganda’s Health ministry and the WHO have sent a team to the western town of Kasese to trace likely cases, and vaccinate those who may have come into contact with the patient, the post added.