Ugandan leader says anti-Ebola efforts starting to succeed

Uganda's efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak were starting to succeed and the country has tightened restrictions in the outbreak's epicentre to further slow the rate of infections, President Yoweri Museveni said on Tuesday.

Two districts where the deadly haemorrhagic fever had spread previously were now free of the disease after they completed the 42 days - or two incubation cycles - of the virus without a case, he said in a televised speech.

Overall cases were falling, but some infected people were still slipping through a quarantine imposed on Mubende and Kasanda districts - the epicentre of the outbreak in central Uganda - and travelling to other regions and exporting cases there, Museveni said.in the country's east, the first time the outbreak had spread to a new region of the country from central Uganda where cases have been confined so far.

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