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Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 37: 7th-13th SEP 2020
Description
This epidemiological bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at district, national, and global levels on disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, preventing and responding to public health events in Uganda on a weekly basis. In this issue, we showcase the following updates among others Uganda updates on COVID-19 Suspected rabies (Animal bites_dog bites) TB Emergency response updates National trends of suspected epidemic prone diseases National, regional and district weekly surveillance reporting Public health events in border countries.COVID-19 as 0f 13th Sep 2020 4978 cumulative cases of COVID-19 confirmed cases among Ugandan nationals 1,202 new cases since last Epi report 434,143 specimens collected and tested 2588 cumulative total recoveries 1,103 cases on admission� 33,678 cumulative contacts listed� 7,677 contacts under follow-up 56 deaths among confirmed cases