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Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 18: 27th - 03rd May 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 weeklybasis. � 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 COVID-19  122 Cumulative cases total of COVID-19 confirmed cases in the country� as 0f 11th May 2020  55 total recoveries  Uganda has not registered any COVID-19 related death  A cumulative total of 55/122 (45%) confirmed cases have recovered and been discharged.  A total of 61460 COVID-19 specimens have been collected and tested.  864 contacts are still under follow up �  A total of 614 high-risk individuals are under institutional quarantine.  The Distribution of cases by age-group are as follows;  21 cases among 30-39 years��  18 cases among� 20-29 years  8 cases� among 50-59� years  7 cases among 40-49 years  5 cases among 60-69 years�  5 cases among 0-9 years  4 cases among 10-19 years

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