A prayer is read during a Safe and Dignified Burial of an Ebola victim on October 11, 2022 in Mubende, Uganda. Emergency response teams, isolation centres and treatment tents have been set up by the Ugandan health authorities around the central Mubende district after 17 recorded deaths and 48 confirmed cases from an outbreak of the Ebola virus. The first death from this outbreak of the Ebola-Sudan strain of the virus was announced on 19 September and as yet, there is no vaccine for this strain. LUKE DRAY VIA GETTY IMAGES
LONDON — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has unannounced an immediate travel lockdown for two districts in central Uganda that are currently battling an Ebola outbreak.
“If you are in Mubende and Kassanda districts, stay there for 21 days,” Museveni said in a speech on Saturday.
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