Uganda Ministry of Health

Rule Changes

Enforcing quarantine, a transit ban and border screening

Uganda requires citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo to quarantine for 21 days at their own cost, and blocks travellers with recent DRC travel history from transiting the country. The health ministry says Uganda has recorded no confirmed case since it declared its own Bundibugyo outbreak over on July 28.

Updated Nov 1

Force in Play

Declared its linked outbreak over August 25 after recording 20 confirmed cases and 2 deaths since May

Nigeria's first Bundibugyo Ebola patient is the wife of a diplomat who holidayed in Uganda, Africa CDC chief Jean Kaseya told the BBC. She is isolated in Abuja, and 44 contacts, most of them health workers, are being monitored.

Updated Nov 1