{"id":40870,"date":"2026-07-28T12:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40870"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:07:24","slug":"ugandas-health-minister-declares-country-free-of-ebola","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ugandas-health-minister-declares-country-free-of-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda&#8217;s Health Minister declares country free of Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Uganda&#8217;s Health \u200cMinister declared the country Ebola-free on Tuesday following the \u200bEast African nation&#8217;s latest \u200boutbreak of the viral haemorrhagic \u2060disease that infected \u200b20 people and killed two \u200bof them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Fifteen people in the latest outbreak, declared in mid-May, \u200bwere infected in \u200bneighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The DRC is epicentre \u200cof \u2060the epidemic where the number of confirmed cases now stands at more \u200bthan \u200b3 000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Throughout \u2060this period the ministry of health maintained \u200bintensive surveillance nationwide \u200band \u2060no new Ebola cases have been detected,&#8221; Health \u2060Minister \u200bChris Baryomunsi said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34548,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-40870","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Uganda's Health \u200cMinister declared the country Ebola-free ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40870","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\/40870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40871,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40870\/revisions\/40871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}