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

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.

For the vast majority of people, COVID-19 will be the first and only pandemic of our lifetimes—but for the human race, it’s not the first or the deadliest. In Shakespeare’s time, for example, there was nothing unusual about quarantines and closures of public places during plague outbreaks.