{"id":40342,"date":"2026-06-02T23:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/iom-calls-on-governments-to-strengthen-cross-border-coordination-to-contain-ebola-epidemic\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:20:59","slug":"iom-calls-on-governments-to-strengthen-cross-border-coordination-to-contain-ebola-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/iom-calls-on-governments-to-strengthen-cross-border-coordination-to-contain-ebola-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"IOM calls on governments to strengthen cross-border coordination to contain Ebola epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/thumbs_b_c_a2697dbe21f076ea34c03d3254097b02.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday called on governments and partners to urgently strengthen cross-border cooperation to curb the current Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the UN agency warned that border closures only risk people&#8217;s movements being clandestine and increase the risk of transmission.<\/p>\n<p>According to According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, the number of confirmed Ebola cases in Congo has exceeded 300.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the death toll from the virus has risen to 48. Uganda has recorded 15 confirmed cases and one death so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViruses do not stop at borders, and neither should our response,\u201d said IOM Deputy Director-General for Operations, Ugochi. Daniels.<\/p>\n<p>She added that border closures often force people to move through informal routes where health checks and surveillance are limited.<\/p>\n<p>IOM stressed that movement restrictions do not stop migration, but often shift it to less monitored routes, making it difficult to track and detect cases early.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday called on governments and partners to urgently strengthen cross-border cooperation to curb the current Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the UN agency warned that border closures only risk people&#8217;s movements being clandestine and increase the risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-40342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":12,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40344,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40342\/revisions\/40344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}