Heritage foundation earlier structural. Documentary. 21st. This is d w news live from berlin a bolus frieds and a leading Research Organization calls it truly terrifying around 1400 people have died from the disease in the Democratic Republic Of Congo now 2 people have died in neighboring uganda will vote like to kampala also coming out poland talks about building for trump after the us president tells his polish counterpart people send
him an extra 1000. 00 troops the polish president promises to buy 35 u. S. Fighter jets and the football Womens World Cup in france germany will almost certainly reach the Downtown Stages of the tournament after a hard fought one nil when called for spain. Im sorry kelly great to have you with us a leading biomedical Research Organization has called the outbreak of ebola in the Democratic Republic Of Congo truly frightening the u. K. Based Welcome Trust says that the epidemic is the worst since 2016 and that it shows no signs of stopping now the World H
managed although the death toll has gone beyond you know 6 of us and the cases it is. a problem in uganda there is a feeling that whereas a lot of people at nasa have been taken on by a government there is still need to continue you know sensitising the community so that people have about how the virus is transferred transmitted will walk us through that i mean why is it so difficult to control the spread of this iris. well the challenge is is that. if you look at the nature of these areas is basically transmitted through contacts and people are always you know. so many gatherings in this area and for the case of uganda
support the response in this maybe more people will not be boxing me and so on friday we shall get it but it is showing again more. frontline hill to our cause other work unring bucks the nation for the contacts because of past successes in combating the disease uganda is widely regarded as being at the forefront of the fight against involucre but faced with the most recent cases many ugandans feel uneasy and wish their country did more to educate citizens about the virus the government does not done enough to assist those people about it because i think they re acknowledging it should have started the from the rural areas but you know when people have the symptoms they want to hide i m in the mix with a great opportunity which now spritz their disease to to wipe out the area room service corps. haven t seen. but they sure do sure. people
a measure to ensure that the diprivan and any kind of contacts with people would be carrying the virus. uganda has been on. that we had to for tad ness and contingency plan in place but that has now been turned into a response and that many. have now gone underground to do ministry of vs 2 to respond and what do you make of that response from the authorities in both countries on when it comes to dealing with the outbreak is there a sense that they re doing enough. well the focus has been if we look at congo for example launch has been done is fish of the focusing on case management. quite a number of cases have been identified you know 1920 cases as of last month. and they have continued to you know ensure that those cases have been
a virus but uganda nothe already is are trying 3 involucre cases have been registered in the country is the 1st known cross borders spread since an outbreak began in the neighboring democratic republic of congo last august fears are growing that this might only be the beginning of the. one outbreak in that yes it s still going on and by today we have over 2000. confirmed cases and so the probability over more cases of course and go from the d.r. a c. into uganda he s very high. in foal isn t new to uganda the country has seen 5 outbreaks of the disease since the year 2000 it has now stepped up efforts to contain the virus screening every person coming in from the eastern d r c the government is also deploying an experimental ebola vaccine for health care workers along the border we are very close. that many more people will come to