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The Ugandan authorities lifted the two-month-old lockdown in two districts, which are at the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak. The country’s Vice President Jessica Alupo said that enough progress had been made to justify the decision
The Ugandan authorities lifted the two-month-old lockdown in two districts, which are at the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak. The country’s Vice President Jessica Alupo said that enough progress had been made to justify the decision.
The two districts where the lockdowns were lifted are Mubende and Kassanda. The lockdown was in existence since October 15th. However, the government official stressed that the authorities remained on high alert to ward off a possible resurgence of the epidemics, which caused disruptions in ordinary life in the affected districts. The East African country has recorded 142 confirmed cases and 56 deaths. The capital city -Kampala- was also not spared of the epidemics.
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Although the local officials called for the lifting of the lockdown and for the government to provide assistance, it was not done immediately The first doses of one of the Ebola vaccines arrived in Uganda in early December. The World Health Organisation (WHO) considers that the country has “begun the countdown” to the end of the epidemic. Coming close on the heels of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ebola outbreak has caused a lot of panic in the country amidst rising prices and a food crisis.
