Table 1. Timeline of key events in the June 2019 imported outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Uganda and establishment and operation of the Uganda Virus Research Institute-United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ebola Field Laboratory at Bwera General Hospital.

Date (time)	Event
Jun 11 (AM)	5-year-old child tests positive for EBOV
Jun 11 (PM)	Ugandan MoH formally declares an outbreak of EVD in Kasese District and notifies the WHO
Jun 11 (PM)	5-year-old child dies
Jun 12 (AM)	50-year-old grandmother to 5-year-old child tests positive for EBOV
Jun 12 (AM)	3-year-old brother to 5-year-old child tests positive for EBOV
Jun 12	50-year-old grandmother dies
Jun 13	Repatriated 3-year-old child dies
Jun 14	Ugandan Minister of Health and DGHS formally request that UVRI and CDC jointly establish an EBOV field laboratory in Kasese District
Jun 16	Deployment of laboratorians, equipment, and supplies to the Kasese District
Jun 17	Meetings with Kasese DHT and Bwera General Hospital leadership; assessment of a potential laboratory site at Bwera General Hospital
Jun 18	Site of UVRI-CDC Ebola Field Laboratory at Bwera General Hospital is cleaned and disinfected
Jun 18	Electrical and carpentry work for the laboratory is completed
Jun 20	Laboratory equipment is set-up
Jun 21	Xpert Ebola Assay quality control is successfully completed on the GeneXpert Instrument
Jun 22	UVRI-CDC Ebola Field Laboratory accepts its first specimen
Jul 4	Day 21 of the outbreak
Jul 25	Day 42 of the outbreak
Aug 7	Operation of the UVRI-CDC Ebola Field Laboratory is discontinued
Aug 9	9-year-old child tests positive for EBOV
Aug 31	UVRI-CDC Ebola Field Laboratory rapidly redeploys and begins testing patient specimens

EBOV, Ebola virus; EVD, Ebola virus disease; MoH, Ministry of Health; WHO, World Health Organization; DGHS, Director General of Health Services; Kasese District Health Team (DHT) UVRI, Uganda Virus Research Institute; CDC, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.