WHO chief visits Ebola-hit Uganda
- Last updated: June 8, 2026 | 13:11
Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tours the Evangelical Medical Center (CEM), one of the facilities at the forefront of the response to the Ebola outbreak during his visit to coordinate the response to the Ebola outbreak, as agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo. File/Reuters
The World Health Organization's director-general on Monday visited Uganda, where a deadly Ebola outbreak has killed two people out of 19 infections after spreading from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
"I am in Uganda, where the government has mounted a prompt and capable response to the outbreak of Ebola," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X. "Screening at the borders helped detect cases arriving from neighbouring DRC, and the country's surveillance, testing and case management systems are doing steady work."
Agence France-Presse