Uganda has discharged eight people after they recovered from Ebola although at least 265 contacts remain under quarantine, its health minister said.
The East African country
declared an outbreak of the highly infectious and often fatal haemorrhagic disease late last month after one man - a male nurse at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala - died.
Eight other people received treatment and "have all done well and are due for discharge today," Health Minister, Jane Ruth Aceng told a press conference on Tuesday.
