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Uganda imposes 21-day quarantine on citizens returning from DR Congo

Uganda will also not allow most travellers who have been in DR Congo to transit through the country.

BBC World•

Ugandans returning from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo will be quarantined for 21 days, the health ministry has said, as the country tightens restrictions to contain the spread of Ebola virus.

More than 4,800 people have died in DR Congo since May - the country's deadliest outbreak of the disease - and has since spread to several other countries.

Uganda's restrictions follow questions after two people who had travelled through the country tested positive for Ebola, in Kenya and Nigeria.

The patient in Nigeria is the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat who had travelled to the Ugandan capital for a holiday, according to the head of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Jean Kaseya, while the Kenyan had travelled from the DR Congo where he had business interests.