Uganda increases surveillance as it confirms six more Ebola cases
Health workers wearing protective gear at an Ebola treatment centre in Guinea, on August 21, 2015. Number of Ebola cases in Uganda rises to seven. PHOTO | FILE
Uganda's Ministry of Health on Thursday reported six new cases of Ebola, raising the total number of confirmed cases to seven.
On Tuesday, the country confirmed the first fatality from the disease after a 24-year-old man died in Mubende District, central Uganda, and was confirmed to have been infected with the virus.
