{"id":35333,"date":"2026-05-25T12:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35333"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:52:25","slug":"uganda-confirms-two-more-ebola-cases-taking-total-to-seven","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/uganda-confirms-two-more-ebola-cases-taking-total-to-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda confirms two more Ebola cases, taking total to seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Uganda has detected two more \u200cconfirmed cases of Ebola, its Health Ministry said <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">this Monday<\/span><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">, bringing the total number of cases reported \u200bin the country to seven.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>The two \u200bnew cases are health workers in a \u2060private health facility in the capital Kampala \u200band both are Ugandans, the Ministry said \u200bin a statement.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Both patients have been admitted to the designated treatment unit and are now receiving care,&#8221; \u200bthe Ministry said, adding that response teams \u200bwere tracing all those who had been in contact \u200cwith \u2060the two people.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Ugandan authorities confirmed three new Ebola cases on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The epicentre of the outbreak is in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s \u200bIturi province, \u200bwhich borders \u2060Uganda.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo \u200bstrain of Ebola a public health \u200bemergency \u2060of international concern.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday that there had been \u2060more \u200bthan 900 suspected cases in \u200bthe outbreak so far, including 101 confirmed cases.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35189,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35333","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ugandan authorities confirmed three new Ebola cases on Saturday.","published_date":"","news_description":"Ugandan authorities confirmed three new Ebola cases on Saturday.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35334,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35333\/revisions\/35334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}