Bunia, May 31 (IANS) World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on countries that have imposed travel bans or closed borders in response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda to reconsider such measures.Speaking at a joint press conference on Saturday in Bunia, the capital of the northeastern Ituri Province and the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, Tedros said such restrictions could complicate response efforts and r…
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Kinshasa, May 30 (IANS) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), is visiting Congo amid the Ebola outbreak in the nation.”I had the opportunity to meet with Lieutenant-General Johnny Luboya Nkashama, the Governor of Ituri, which is currently the province in the Congo reporting the highest number of cases in the ongoing Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus,” Ghebreyesus wrote on X on Saturday.”During our discussions, we agreed that a key priori…
Kinshasa, May 30 (IANS) World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Saturday called on countries that have imposed travel bans or closed borders in response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda to reconsider such measures.Speaking at a joint press conference in Bunia, the capital of the northeastern Ituri Province and the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak, Tedros said such restrictions could complicate response efforts an…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) As Africa grapples with a deadly Ebola outbreak, India on Friday expressed readiness to continue assisting affected countries and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in dealing with the health emergency. Addressing a weekly media briefing in New Delhi, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that the medical supplies sent to the Africa CDC were handed over by the Indian High Commissioner in Uganda, Upender Singh Rawat,…
Ottawa, May 28 (IANS) The United States, Mexico and Canada on Thursday issued a trilateral statement on public health travel measures in the wake of the Ebola virus outbreak in parts of Africa.“The United States, Mexico and Canada have announced aligned public health travel measures for individuals arriving from African regions considered at greatest risk from the Ebola virus. This coordinated approach aims to protect our citizens and the millions of visitors, fans, athletes and tourists expec…
Washington, May 28 (IANS) The United States has mobilised more than $112 million in bilateral foreign assistance in less than two weeks to combat the fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, the State Department said on Thursday.The announcement came as US health officials warned that the outbreak remained “rapidly evolving and fluid”, while insisting that the current risk to the United States remained low.The State Department said it had finali…
Kampala, May 28 (IANS) Uganda on Thursday assured tourists that national parks and other tourist attractions across the East African country remain safe to visit, saying Ebola prevention measures have been strengthened at all sites.Robust health and preventive measures have been put in place at tourist destinations, Bashir Hangi, communications officer of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, the state agency responsible for managing national parks, told Xinhua by telephone.”Our parks are safe. We are …
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) India has dispatched emergency pharmaceutical supplies as part of efforts to contain the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).The Ethiopia‑headquartered Africa CDC said in a social media post that the consignment, donated by the Government of India, was received in Uganda by its Eastern Africa Regional Coordinating Centre and will be deployed to affected communitie…
Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar, May 27 (IANS) Gujarat health authorities have quarantined four people, including a businessman who recently arrived from Africa, as a precautionary measure amid heightened surveillance over Ebola outbreaks reported in Uganda and Congo, State Health Minister Praful Pansheriya said on Wednesday. The Minister said a 37-year-old businessman identified as Amori Lokola arrived in Mumbai around five to seven days ago before travelling to Vadodara.After the businessman developed a…
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said it is closely monitoring the evolving situation of Ebola Virus Disease following recent outbreaks reported in parts of Africa. The government stated that, while exercising abundant caution, it had placed an individual with recent travel history from Uganda under isolation at the state-run Epidemic Diseases Hospital in Bengaluru after the person reported mild symptoms of body ache.Officials clarified that the indivi…