Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- Uganda's Ministry of Health has said it has no confirmed active Ebola cases, clarifying that the woman diagnosed with the disease in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), is a Nigerian who travelled through the country.

In a statement issued on Tuesday and signed by Charles Olaro, the ministry's director-general of health services, the woman reportedly travelled to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for business before transiting through Uganda in early October.

According to the ministry, she showed no symptoms while in Uganda but developed symptoms after arriving in Nigeria.

The ministry stressed that the woman's transit through Uganda did not establish that she contracted the virus there, adding...