Ministry of Health in Uganda has on Tuesday confirmed new Ebola outbreak in the country with 19 people killed.
The ministry also said five medical staff members that contracted Ebola from treating the first confirmed case in the east African nation in September have recovered and been discharged from an isolation unit in Entebbe.
The country’s health minister Jane Ruth Aceng added that five affected districts have seen “54 cumulative confirmed cases”, with 19 deaths and 20 recoveries.
Reacting to the development, a medical staff who was among the recovered patients gave appreciation on behalf of the affected medical officials.
The Ugandan government is counting only deaths among confirmed patients, according to the ministry.