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News Updates: Uganda isolates six monkeypox cases and sends samples to South Africa for testing.

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• Two of the suspected cases were isolated in the south-western Kisoro District, which borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, while four were isolated in Kampala City.

• Ugandan authorities have confirmed that six persons suspected of having monkeypox have been isolated.

• Because Uganda currently lacks the capacity to test for monkeypox, samples from the six have been transferred to South Africa for testing.