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REVEALED: Uganda extends quarantine in ebola epicentre for 21 days - The Real Truth

Red Cross workers don PPE prior to burying a three-year-old boy suspected of dying from Ebola on October 13, 2022 in Mubende, Uganda [File: Luke Dray/Getty Images]

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicentre of the country’s Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that his government’s response to the disease was succeeding.

Movement in and out of Mubende and Kassanda districts in central Uganda will be restricted up to December 17, the presidency said late on Saturday. It was originally imposed for 21 days on October 15, then extended for the same period on November 5.

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