A new outbreak of the highly contagious Ebola virus has been reported in the central district of Mubende in Uganda.
On Tuesday, the country’s health ministry confirmed that the first death, of a man in his 20s, had occurred from the virus marking the first since 2019.
Taking to Twitter the ministry wrote: "The confirmed case is a 24-year-old male who presented with EVD symptoms and later succumbed.”
