Uganda extends Ebola lockdown in two hotspots

 

 

 

KAMPALA — Uganda’s president extended a six-week lockdown Saturday on two districts at the epicenter of an an Ebola outbreak that has claimed 55 lives but said its spread was being curbed.

Since the outbreak was declared on September 20, Ebola has spread across Uganda and reached the capital Kampala, though health authorities this week said case numbers were falling.

The two central districts at the heart of the outbreak, Mubende and Kassanda, were placed under a 21-day lockdown by President Yoweri Museveni on October 15.

The measures — including a dusk-to-dawn curfew, a ban on personal travel, and the closure of markets, bars and churches — …

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