{"id":35564,"date":"2026-05-27T08:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35564"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:08:57","slug":"ugandan-woman-quarantined-in-india-tests-negative-for-ebola","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ugandan-woman-quarantined-in-india-tests-negative-for-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan woman quarantined in India tests negative for Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A Ugandan woman has tested negative for Ebola infection, \u200bIndia&#8217;s health ministry said on Wednesday, after she was quarantined \u200cin the tech hub of Bengaluru on suspicion of having the virus, but it did not say if she would be released from isolation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The \u200bnews comes a day after a meeting held by Health \u200bMinister Jagat Prakash Nadda to review preparations to tackle \u2060the disease, which the World Health Organisation has declared a public \u200bhealth emergency of international concern.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The test result has returned negative for \u200bEbola virus disease,&#8221; the Health Ministry said in a statement on the Bengaluru case, which, if confirmed, would have been the South Asian nation&#8217;s first since \u200b2014.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 28-year-old visitor from Uganda did not show symptoms and \u200bwas quarantined as a precaution, said Doctor Anil Kumar Banagar, medical superintendent at \u200cthe \u2060hospital where she was isolated, though the ministry said she suffered mild body ache.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She arrived in the southern city from the western industrial city of Ahmedabad on her journey from Uganda.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>India has \u200blaunched screening and surveillance \u200bmeasures at \u2060airports and other entry points, issued advisories on precautions, and urged citizens to avoid non-essential travel to \u200bCongo, Uganda, and South Sudan.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The India-Africa Forum Summit \u200bscheduled this \u2060week in the capital, New Delhi, was postponed over the public health concerns in Africa.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The World Health Organisation has confirmed 101 cases among more than 900 \u2060globally \u200bsuspected of the Bundibugyo strain of the virus, \u200bfor which there is no approved vaccine or treatment.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35212,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35564","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Focus on Ebola infection","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35564","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\/35564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35565,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35564\/revisions\/35565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}