A young child has died of the Ebola virus in Uganda, the second victim of an outbreak that was announced in late January, the health ministry has announced. The ministry said at least ten cases of the Sudan Ebola strain of the often deadly virus have been recorded.

A 4-year-old child became the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health Organization said Saturday, in a setback for health officials who had hoped for a quick end to the outbreak that began at the end of January.

A four-year-old has been identified as the second patient to die from the Ebola virus in Uganda after a recent outbreak.

Ebola patient, a four-year-old child, has died in Uganda, the World Health Organization said, citing the country’s health ministry. The fatality brings the number of confirmed cases in Uganda to 10. The East African country declared an outbreak of the highly infectious and often fatal haemorrhagic disease in January after the death of a male nurse at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in the capital Kampala.

Uganda health authorities say they discharged the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola. There were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month.

A 4-year-old child has died in Uganda from the Ebola outbreak, marking the second confirmed case in the East African country.

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