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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.In this issue, we bring you the following among others  National and district weekly surveillance reporting  Suspected epidemic prone diseases.  Uganda updates on COVID-19  Regional reporting rates  Public health events in border countries.�Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)  On 21st March 2020, the Ministry of Health of Uganda confirmed the 1st outbreak of COVID19 in the country�  The cumulative total of COVID-19 confirmed cases in the country is 85 as 0f 1st May 2020  A cumulative total of 52/85 (66%) confirmed cases have recovered and been discharged.  Eighty-nine percent (76/85) are imported cases, 8% are local transmissions (7/85) while 2% have an unknown chain of transmission (2/85)  A rapid assessment survey is being conducted to establish the extent of COVID-19 community transmission in the country.  A total of 455 high-risk individuals are under institutional quarantine.  The COVID-19 surveillance strategy has been developed and disseminated (Annex ii

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