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In his first presidential address on the Ebola situation in Uganda, President Y Museveni urged pastors to avoid body contact during prayers.
He warned that medical staff and pastors have died most in the neighbouring DRC where more than ninety have so far been confirmed dead due to the viral haemorrhagic disease.
“God is not deaf. He will hear you”, Museveni said, urging the clergy to pray away from their congregation and avoid other religious rituals that bring them into close contact such as sharing cups during holy communion.
With Uganda’s 19 confirmed cases of which 14 are Congolese nationals from one family who sought care in the country, Museveni said the outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola is very easy to defeat unlike COVID-19 whose transmission was harder to control.
He said the virus cannot be spread unless the infected person has started falling sick and described those falling sick to be a result of “small windows of indiscipline”.
