Ebola spreads to Uganda
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 15 June 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Ebola has spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Uganda as the authorities struggle to control it. Olivia Acland visits an Ebola zone in the DRC. Russian journalist, Ivan Golunov, this week was let off drug dealing charges after a public outcry. Steve Rosenberg looks at why the case has been so embarrassing for the Russian authorities. The protests in Hong Kong this week have seen some unlikely allies - and foes. Gabriel Gatehouse witnesses a rare stand off between a Hong Kong legislator and the police. Italy's Prime Minister is arguably less well known than his deputies. James Reynolds unpicks a complicated web of Italian politics. Whether you are visiting New Zealand's volcanoes or its spectacular fjords, getting around without a car in the country can be difficult. Christine Finn finds out why hitchhiking is popular for tourists.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Today a surprise in Russia with the curious tale of an investigative journalist in |
| 0:11.0 | a Kremlin climb down, a torrid week in Hong Kong, what do those who make the law think about the protests? |
| 0:18.0 | We have a short guide to the maze that is Italian politics, and we learn to hitch hike successfully around New Zealand. |
| 0:28.0 | The Democratic Republic of Congo has myriad problems and now has the second largest known outbreak of Ebola in the history of the disease. |
| 0:37.0 | And it's crossed the border into Uganda this week. |
| 0:40.0 | Nearly 1400 have died in DRC since last August and Olivia |
| 0:44.7 | Ackland has been to one of the affected areas. |
| 0:48.3 | On Monday morning a family were heading from the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| 0:52.0 | back home to Uganda after a funeral. |
| 0:54.0 | The grandfather had died from Ebola and his daughter had gone to Congo a few weeks earlier |
| 0:58.6 | to try and nurse him back to health. |
| 1:00.6 | By the time the family got close to the Ugandan border, most of them were suffering from high |
| 1:05.4 | fevers and diarrhea, tell-tale symptoms of the deadly virus. |
| 1:09.6 | They stopped in a health clinic and were put in isolation awaiting tests. But after dark, six members of the family, |
| 1:16.1 | including a five-year-old boy, slipped out of the clinic and set off down a desolate and |
| 1:20.8 | poorly pleased road that crosses into Uganda. A few days later, both the boy and his |
| 1:26.3 | grandmother had died. Health officials have long feared that this outbreak of the Ebola |
| 1:30.9 | virus could pass over the porous border into Uganda. The border is |
| 1:35.3 | over 500 miles long and many of the crossings are informal, sometimes just a couple of |
| 1:40.1 | planks laid across a shallow river. An endless stream of traders, some balancing |
| 1:45.1 | baskets on their heads or swinging chickens by their feet, moves back and forth |
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