00:00The World Health Organization has confirmed the end of Uganda's Ebola outbreak.
00:06Uganda declared it was officially free of the virus last month,
00:10but the WHO continued monitoring the situation to ensure there were no remaining chains of transmission.
00:18The country had confirmed a total of 20 cases since May 15,
00:22when neighbouring DR Congo announced an outbreak of the deadly virus.
00:28Kampala says that its cases were all linked to the outbreak in the DRC,
00:33and the first patients had entered the country from Congo before knowing they were infected.
00:39But the situation is very different in eastern Congo,
00:43where the virus continues to spread at a rate alarming health officials.
00:48More than 4,500 cases have been confirmed across six provinces, including more than 2,000 deaths.
00:57The outbreak is driven by the Bundibugio strain of the Ebola virus,
01:01for which there is currently no approved vaccine or treatment.
