Congolese refugees cross illegally into Uganda, raising risk of Ebola – aid groups | World News, The Indian Express

Congolese refugees cross illegally into Uganda, raising risk of Ebola – aid groups | World News, The Indian Express

By Reuters |Nairobi |Published: May 3, 2019 2:31:33 pm

Congolese refugees cross illegally into Uganda, raising risk of Ebola – aid groups

Musa Ecweru, Uganda's minister for disaster management and refugee affairs, said surveillance teams and authorities along the border were on red alert for suspected cases of Ebola.

Doctors and health workers march in the Eastern Congo town of Butembo on Wednesday April 24, 2019, after attackers last week shot and killed an epidemiologist from Cameroon who was working for the World Health Organization. Doctors at the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola’s crisis are threatening to go on strike indefinitely if health workers are attacked again. (AP photo)

People fleeing violence in an Ebola-hit region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are being forced to cross the border illegally into Uganda, risking the virus spreading into the neighboring East African nation, aid groups said on Friday.