00:01Africa's top public health agency is urging the United States to lift travel restrictions on Uganda,
00:07arguing the country has brought its Ebola outbreak under control.
00:11Speaking at the African Union Health Summit in Ghana,
00:15Africa's CDC Director General Jean Kassaya said Uganda has gone three weeks without a new Ebola case
00:23and discharged its last patient earlier this month.
00:27He warned that countries should not be penalized for being transparent about disease outbreaks.
00:34The U.S. recently tightened travel restrictions on Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan
00:40as the outbreak spread across the region.
00:44While opposing travel bans, Kassaya warned the epidemic in the DRC is worsening rapidly
00:50with more than 2,300 confirmed cases and over 900 deaths since May.
00:56Africa's CDC says nearly $1.4 million is needed to contain the outbreak.
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