Kenya yemeje bwa mbere ko umuturage wayo wanduye icyorezo cya Ebola yapfuye, nyuma y’uko uyu munyakenya wari umaze imyaka irindwi atuye muri Repubulika Iharanira Demokarasi ya Congo (DRC) agarutse i Nairobi.
Minisitiri w’Ubuzima wa Kenya, Aden Duale, yavuze ko uyu mugabo
yari amaze hafi ukwezi arwaye mbere yo kuva muri DRC, akagera i Kampala
n’imodoka, nyuma akaza kugenda n’indege yerekeza i Nairobi ku wa 3 Ukwakira
2026.
Yageze
ku Kibuga Mpuzamahanga cy’Indege cya Jomo Kenyatta, akorerwa isuzuma risanzwe
ry’ubuzima, nyuma ajyanwa mu bitaro bya Nairobi. Ibisubizo by’ibizamini byaje
kugaragaza ko yanduye Ebola Bundibugyo, mbere y’uko apfa mu ijoro
ryakurikiyeho.
Abayobozi
ba Kenya bamaze kumenya abantu 28 bashobora kuba barahuye na we, barimo abo mu
muryango we n’abakozi bo mu rwego rw’ubuzima. Hari kandi abandi bagenzi 23
ndetse n’abakozi bane b’indege bari kumwe na we mu rugendo, bakomeje
gushakishwa.
Minisitiri
Duale yavuze ko hashyizweho gahunda yo gushyira mu kato abantu bafite ibyago
byo kuba baranduye, mu rwego rwo gukumira ikwirakwira ry’iyi ndwara mu
baturage.
Kugeza
ku wa 6 Ukwakira 2026, Kenya ivuga ko yari imaze gusuzuma abagenzi 652,584, gupima ibizamini 267
muri laboratwari eshanu no guhugura abakozi bo mu rwego rw’ubuzima 4,971 ku bijyanye no guhangana
na Ebola.
Umuyobozi
Mukuru w’Ubuzima muri Kenya, Patrick Amoth, yavuze ko Kenya iri gukorana na
Uganda ndetse n’Ishami ry’Umuryango w’Abibumbye ryita ku Buzima (WHO) mu rwego
rwo gukumira ko Ebola ikwirakwira mu baturage.
Iyi
ndwara yagaragaye muri Kenya mu gihe DRC ihanganye n’icyorezo cya Ebola
gikomeye cyatewe na virusi ya Bundibugyo. WHO yatangaje ko kugeza ku wa 23 Nzeri
2026, muri DRC hari hamaze kwemezwa abantu 7,890 banduye, abandi 3,799 bakaba bari bamaze gupfa,
aho ubwandu bwari bumaze kugera mu ntara zirindwi.
Iki cyorezo cyari cyaranageze no muri Uganda, aho abantu 20
banduye Ebola, babiri muri bo bakaba barapfuye. Uganda yatangaje ko icyorezo
cyarangiye mu mpera za Kanama, nyuma yo kumara iminsi 42 nta murwayi mushya
wemejwe.