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Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 32: 3rd -9th Aug 2020

Surveillance and reporting

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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 the country on a weekly basis. This issue, we showcase the following updates among others  Uganda updates on COVID-19  Suspected rabies (Animal bites_dog bites)  Rift Valley Fever in Mbarara  National trends of suspected epidemic prone diseases  National, regional and district weekly surveillance reporting  Iganga District success story in weekly reporting  Public health events in border countries COVID-19 as 0f 9th Aug 2020  1,297 Cumulative cases of COVID-19 confirmed cases in the country among Ugandan nationals  299,036 specimens collected and tested  1137 cumulative total recoveries  145 cases on admission  16349 Cumulative contacts listed  1,294 contacts under follow-up  9 deaths among confirmed cases

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