A health expert has said that despite of Uganda registering no case of Ebola virus, Uganda needs to continue maintaining the Ebola restrictions for 42 days.
According to Landry Kabego the Infection Prevention and Control Officer World Health Organization/Regional Office for Africa, for Ebola virus incubation cycle to be complete, the country needs to take 42 days while exercising the imposed restrictions.
He noted that the virus stays longer in the reproductive cells adding that patients who are discharged of Ebola can transmit the virus to their patterns.
Meanwhile Uganda on Thursday received at least 1,200 doses of Ebola trial vaccines, the country’s Ministry of Health and World Health Organisation (WHO) officials said.
This is first batch of one of the three candidate vaccines against the Sudan Ebola virus, according to the ministry officials.
The vaccines will be evaluated in a clinical trial called Tokomeza Ebola, according to WHO officials.
According to Uganda’s minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, the East African nation has not registered any new confirmed Ebola case in the last nine days.
“It is nine days today that we have no new cases of Ebola, but that does not mean we are out of the outbreak. Uganda encourages scientists to continue research to support the provision of appropriate drugs and vaccines to prevent future outbreaks,” Dr Aceng said while receiving the vaccines.
The country has confirmed 142 cases, with 56 deaths, since it announced an outbreak of the Sudan strain of Ebola in September.