{"id":89812,"date":"2026-05-27T19:11:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89812"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:11:47","slug":"uganda-closes-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-border-as-rare-ebola-cases-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/27\/uganda-closes-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-border-as-rare-ebola-cases-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda closes Democratic Republic of the Congo border as rare Ebola cases surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/card_img\/2059351897132126208\/rhZdTmu2?format=jpg&name=900x900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ugandan authorities on Wednesday ordered the closure of the border with Democratic Republic of the Congo \u201cwith immediate effect\u201d as cases surge there of a rare type of Ebola and as others emerge at home. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/uganda-closes-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-border-as-rare-ebola-cases-surge\/ar-AA24bLSg?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a172368a659465e99917a7c7df6065c&ei=41\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Ugandan authorities on Wednesday ordered the closure of the border with Democratic Republic of the Congo \u201cwith immediate effect\u201d as cases surge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/uganda.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89813,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89812\/revisions\/89813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}