Contact monitoring is still under way for 216 people who are at quarantine facilities located throughout the country.

Eight patients treated for Ebola in Uganda have recovered, the country's health minister said on Wednesday, declaring the country's latest outbreak of the deadly disease "contained".

Uganda has discharged eight people after they recovered from Ebola although at least 265 contacts remain under quarantine, its health minister said.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, health authorities reported, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month. World Health Organization described the recoveries as a milestone that “reflects the power of Uganda’s quick and coordinated response.”

The lone fatality from the latest outbreak was a male nurse who died the day before the outbreak was declared in Kampala on Jan. 30

For the vast majority of people, COVID-19 will be the first and only pandemic of our lifetimes—but for the human race, it’s not the first or the deadliest. In Shakespeare’s time, for example, there was nothing unusual about quarantines and closures of public places during plague outbreaks.