The director-general of the UN's World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, visited Uganda on Monday, which borders the epicenter of the latest Ebola outbreak in Ituri province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The WHO has declared a public health emergency over the current outbreak, which was announced on May 15 in the northeastern DRC.
Tedros was in the DRC last week, in the gold mining hub of Ituri province that has been at the center of the latest outbreak, involving more than 500 confirmed cases.What did Tedros say during his visit to Uganda?
Tedros praised local authorities and their success in largely containing the handful of cases that have come across the border.
"I am in Uganda, where the government has mounted a prompt and capable response to the outbreak of Ebola," he wrote.
