Africa
Uganda closes schools to fight Ebola, new cases fall
4 years agoFamily members carry student's belongings on a wheelbarrow after a directive of the Health Ministry to close all schools two weeks earlier to curb the spread of Ebola at Naalya Senior Secondary boarding school in Kampala on November 25, 2022. - Since Uganda declared an Ebola outbreak on September 20, cases have spread across the country, including to the capital Kampala and Uganda has been struggling to rein in the outbreak caused by the Sudan strain of the virus, for which there is currently no vaccine. (Photo by BADRU KATUMBA / AFP)
Uganda closed schools nationwide on Friday to curb the spread of Ebola, despite the health minister insisting to AFP that new cases had declined.
