{"id":35667,"date":"2026-05-28T08:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35667"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:05:21","slug":"uganda-closes-border-with-drc-to-try-to-limit-ebola-spread","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/uganda-closes-border-with-drc-to-try-to-limit-ebola-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda closes border with DRC to try to limit Ebola spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Uganda \u200bhas closed its border with neighbouring Democratic \u200cRepublic of Congo (DRC) with immediate effect to try to limit the spread of Ebola, Uganda&#8217;s government said \u200bon Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The border will be closed for \u200bfour weeks, except for Ebola response teams, \u2060humanitarian and security operations, and food and \u200bcargo transport, senior health official Diana Atwine \u200btold a press conference.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Uganda has reported seven Ebola cases and one death in the outbreak, whose epicentre is in \u200bCongo&#8217;s Ituri province.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>DRC has seen more than \u200b900 suspected cases and over 220 deaths, opens new tab, according to \u200cthe \u2060World Health Organisation, which has declared the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola a public health emergency of international \u200bconcern.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Uganda&#8217;s government \u200blast week \u2060announced an initial set of measures to try to limit the \u200bcross-border spread of the virus, \u200bincluding suspending \u2060public transport services with DRC.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Atwine said on Wednesday that any person authorised to enter Uganda \u2060from \u200bDRC would be required \u200bto undergo mandatory self-isolation for 21 days.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35189,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-35667","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Uganda limits the spread of Ebola","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35667","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\/35667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35668,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35667\/revisions\/35668"}],"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=35667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}