This archive report was first published on 30 August 2019.
Uganda has been on high alert since the start of an Ebola outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo in August 2018.
A nine-year-old girl who tested positive for Ebola in Uganda after travelling from the Democratic Republic of Congo has died, a Ugandan health official said on Friday, August 30, 2019.
"She passed on at around 0800 (0500 GMT) this morning," said Yusuf Baseka, health director in Kasese, a district in southwestern Uganda along the border with DR Congo.
The child, who is of Congolese origin, was diagnosed after exhibiting symptoms at a border crossing in Kasese district on Wednesday.
She was subsequently isolated and transferred to an Ebola treatment unit.
Her body would be repatriated to DR Congo later Friday, Dr Baseka said.
Uganda has now recorded four Ebola-related deaths, including three members of a single family who tested positive for the disease in June after entering from DR Congo.
