Kampala, June 8 (IANS) Uganda has deployed a team of health workers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to help contain the Ebola outbreak in the neighbouring country, a senior health official said on Monday.Diana Atwine, permanent secretary at Uganda’s Ministry of Health, made the remarks during a meeting with visiting World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Kampala, Xinhua news agency reported.According to a post by the ministry on the social me…
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Jaipur, June 6 (IANS) The Ugandan woman who was admitted to an isolation ward at RUHS Hospital in Jaipur with suspected Ebola-like symptoms has tested negative for the virus.The test report, received from the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, confirmed that she is not infected with Ebola, health officials said on Saturday.The woman had arrived in Jaipur on Friday morning on an Air Arabia flight from Uganda via Sharjah, landing at Jaipur Airport at around 4.30 a.m.During routine health …
United Nations, June 6 (IANS) Increased deadly attacks in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) this week isolate communities and threaten the Ebola response, UN humanitarians have warned.The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Friday (local time) said the intensifying violence is claiming civilian lives and severely restricting humanitarian access in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces.OCHA said that in North Kivu, local authorities reported an armed attac…
Kinshasa, June 6 (IANS) The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has risen to 452, including 82 deaths, according to the latest situation report released by the country’s health ministry.According to the report, health authorities reported 71 new confirmed cases on June 4, including 21 deaths, in Ituri and North Kivu provinces, a sign of rapid and continuing community transmission amid the outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus.A total of 2…
Kampala, June 5 (IANS) Uganda has confirmed three new Ebola cases, bringing the cumulative number of infections to 19 since the outbreak was declared on May 15, the Ministry of Health said on Friday.In an update posted on social media platform X, the ministry said the three new cases were contacts of previously confirmed patients and had been under institutional quarantine.The ministry also reported one new death involving a Congolese national, Xinhua news agency.According to the ministry, of th…
Madrid, June 5 (IANS) The Democratic Republic of Congo has condemned a decision by Spanish authorities to cancel its pre-World Cup friendly against Chile on June 9 due to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the African nation.The match was scheduled to be played in La Linea de la Concepcion in southern Spain, but on Tuesday the town’s mayor, Juan Franco, announced that it would not go ahead on public health grounds.”I have signed the decree banning the holding of the 9 June match between the Democrati…
Hyderabad, June 5 (IANS) Another Sudanese national has been shifted to an isolation centre in Hyderabad over suspected Ebola symptoms. The individual, who arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), has been shifted to the isolation centre at Gandhi Hospital, officials said on Friday.The Sudanese national is pursuing his higher studies at a private university in Hyderabad.His contact has also been isolated at Gandhi Hospital for screening. He is the second Sudanese national to be isola…
Kinshasa, June 4 (IANS) Confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have risen to 363, including 62 deaths, according to figures released by the DRC government, while Uganda on Thursday reported four recoveries.The latest developments were discussed on Thursday during an online press briefing organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa, which brought together senior WHO officials and government representatives from the DRC, Uganda and South…
Canberra, June 4 (IANS) The Australian government on Thursday committed funding to support the global response to the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa and prevent the spread of the disease.Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and Minister for International Development Anne Aly said in a joint statement that Australia will provide 5 million Australian dollars (around 3.6 million US dollars) to the initiative.”Australia’s funding, directed through the International Federation of the Red Cross and t…
Washington, June 3 (IANS) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio vigorously defended the Trump administration’s restructuring of US foreign assistance programmes, rejecting Democratic criticism that cuts to aid and the dismantling of parts of the foreign aid bureaucracy have weakened America’s global influence and contributed to humanitarian suffering.Appearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State and Related Programs, Rubio argued that the administra…