Africa’s Top Health Official Asks US to Lift Ebola-Related Travel Restrictions on Uganda
Africa CDC says Uganda has gone three weeks without a new case and urges Washington to end screening and entry limits that have hit travel and business.
- On Tuesday, Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya requested the United States lift Ebola-related travel restrictions on Uganda, citing the country's transparency and progress in containing the virus.
- Kaseya argued that penalizing transparent nations discourages reporting, noting Uganda recorded no new cases for three weeks and discharged its final patient on July 16.
- US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention measures, implemented earlier this year, include enhanced traveler screening and rerouting passengers through designated airports, which Ugandan officials claim hindered tourism and business.
- While advocating for Uganda, Kaseya warned the epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is worsening rapidly, with over 2,400 confirmed cases and 900 deaths since May.
- Africa CDC estimates nearly $1.4 billion is required to contain the broader outbreak; insecurity and over one million internally displaced people complicate regional disease surveillance efforts.
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Uganda: Africa CDC Urges U.S. to Lift Uganda Ebola Travel Restrictions
[Independent (Kampala)] Addis Ababa -- The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has called on the United States to lift travel restrictions imposed on Uganda following its recent Ebola outbreak, saying the country has demonstrated transparency and made significant progress in containing the disease.
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The Independent Uganda:Africa CDC urges U.S. to lift Uganda Ebola travel restrictions
Africa's top public health agency is urging the United States to lift travel restrictions on Uganda, arguing the country has brought its Ebola outbreak under control.
Call to Lift Ebola Travel Restrictions on Uganda
Africa's leading public health official has urged U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lift travel restrictions imposed on Uganda due to Ebola. The country has not reported any new Ebola infections in the past month, prompting the call for eased restrictions.
Africa CDC asks US to lift Uganda Ebola travel bans - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.
“There is no reason for the United States (US) to continue with this travel restriction,” Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Director-General Jean Kaseya told a conference in Accra, Ghana’s capital, on Tuesday. The head of Africa’s top public health agency said he had written to US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asking him to lift Ebola-related travel restrictions on Uganda since the country has reported…
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