Uganda announced on Tuesday that it has recorded three new deaths attributed to mpox, raising the total number of laboratory-confirmed fatalities in the country to four.
Henry Kyobe Bosa, the incident manager at the Ugandan Ministry of Health, reported that two of the deaths occurred at Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital, located approximately 40 kilometers south of the capital, Kampala. The third death took place at Hoima Regional Referral Hospital in the central-western region of the country.
According to Bosa, the deceased include an eight-month-old infant and a 23-year-old woman from Wakiso District, as well as a 40-year-old man from Kikuube District in the central-western part of Uganda.
Uganda confirmed its first death from mpox in October in Masindi District, also situated in the central-western region.
The most recent situation report published on Monday indicates that the cumulative number of confirmed infections has reached 784.
