Porous borders stoke Ebola fears across the region

Ebola treatment isolation unit

Members of Doctors without Borders set up an Ebola treatment isolation unit at the Mubende Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda. PHOTO | FILE

Uganda health officials are suggesting expanded lockdown measures but President Yoweri Museveni has clarified that the government will not enact Covid-like restrictions that saw schools and worship centres shut down

Health authorities across the region are scratching their heads on how to counter the health and economic threats posed by the growing Ebola emergency in Uganda, even as economies struggle to recover from the effects of Covid-19.