The WHO said ver the weekend that it continues to support the national response, working with the Ministry of Health and partners to strengthen and sustain control measures to curb the spread of the virus and halt the outbreak.

“WHO continues to support Uganda’s Ebola response efforts. Our teams are working with the Ministry of Health and partners to strengthen surveillance, active case searching, contact listing and tracing, infection prevention and control in health facilities, case management, and community engagement to halt the spread of the virus.”

On February 5 this year, the Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health, Dr. Diana Atwiine, announced that Uganda had kicked off clinical trials of a vaccine against Ebola Sudan.

Atwiine made the announcement just one week after the disease killed one person. The deceased was a nurse at Mulago Hospital.

She said that health workers and other people exposed to the disease were being targeted in the trial.

“It is right to test the vaccine in the condition we are in now because our health workers have been exposed, and I believe that it will have that ability. The safety trials were done, and the vaccine is safe. So now, we just want to see how protective it is because we are in the midst of the epidemic,” Atwine said.

The case was “a four-and-a-half-year-old child, who tragically passed away on 25th February” at Mulago hospital, according to WHO.