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Global outbreak state: where each country actually stands
The DR Congo outbreak is expanding, Uganda’s has been declared over, and the international emergency continues. Those are three separate facts, and no single flag can carry them.
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One pathogen, two national states, one international emergency
A generic two-country outbreak story goes wrong the moment one country closes and the other does not. This page holds state per country, and holds the international determination separately from both.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
60 of 151 health zones across six provinces. 5,794 confirmed cases and 2,786 deaths through . A frontline-worker Ervebo campaign began in Kisangani on 27 August.
Uganda
Declared over in a joint WHO African Region and Africa CDC release dated , after 42 consecutive days with no new confirmed case following discharge of the last imported case.
International determination
The event remains a public health emergency of international concern on the IHR Emergency Committee’s assessment of , and does not meet the criteria for a pandemic emergency.
State fields held per country
| Field | DR Congo | Uganda |
|---|---|---|
| Pathogen | Bundibugyo ebolavirus | Bundibugyo ebolavirus |
| Active | Yes | No |
| Declared over | — | 27 August 2026 |
| PHEIC state | Continues | Continues (event-level, not country-level) |
| Pandemic emergency | No | No |
| WHO assessment date | 28 August 2026 | 28 August 2026 |
| Vaccine status | No licensed Bundibugyo-specific vaccine; Ervebo campaign among frontline workers | — |
| Trial status | Phase I mRNA candidate authorised in Canada | — |
| Travel measures | Canada’s temporary border measures, extended 28 August 2026, current endpoint 28 September 2026 — instrument held for a primary read | — |
What this does not establish. A PHEIC is not a pandemic. Ervebo’s protection against Bundibugyo virus has not been established, and its use in a frontline campaign is not evidence that it works against this species. A WHO determination is not a travel recommendation, and it does not authorise any national border measure.
A source-integrity note worth keeping
When Canada extended its temporary border measures, a subordinate traveller-information page continued to display the earlier expiry date. The newer instrument controls; the lag is recorded rather than averaged, and the extension itself is not published here until the instrument is read at source. Two government pages disagreeing is not two policies — it is one policy and one stale page.
Primary sources: ECDC situation page · World Health Organization. Related: PHEIC declarations and national powers · Quarantine and isolation · This week