Thomas Nardi
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What?
What are you talking about?
Or did you get the army from Esikoinen Ripi?
Were there any birthday parties this summer?
In Kampala, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda itself, and then South Sudan decided to adopt a joint plan.
And it's basically to counter the spread of the Ebola virus across the region.
What they are doing is they are trying to increase border monitoring, improve protection for frontline workers, and then also expand capacity.
And we've seen that the numbers have started increasing.
The WHO announced on Sunday that the number of suspected cases have risen to over 900 and then 101 cases.
concerned cases.
And this is as a result of improved testing, tracking, and then surveillance in the affected regions.
But I think the health ministers in the three countries did express concern about the fact that trade and then also conflict in the region coercing the ongoing outbreak in the DRC and in Uganda.
Certainly.
The outbreak remains active in three provinces in the DRC.
We have the Ituri province area.
where commercial flights have now been suspended in the capital, Bonia.
We also have North Kivu and South Kivu.
And we know that the virus has spread to rebel-controlled territories, which is quite difficult for health authorities.
to get to in order to contain the spread.