Uganda calls for travel restrictions to be lifted after last Ebola patient discharged

Per The Guardian, Uganda has discharged its last confirmed Ebola patient from Mulago Hospital. The Congolese national's release on Thursday begins a forty-two-day countdown required by the World Health Organization; if no new cases emerge, Uganda will be declared Ebola-free. The country is now lobbying other nations to lift travel restrictions—though across the border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, cases continue to rise.

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