DR Congo Reports Fresh Ebola Outbreak
Activists walk along the street during a COVID-19 coronavirus awareness campaign in Kinshasa on May 29, 2020. SAMIR TOUNSI / AFPDR Congo reported a fresh Ebola outbreak in its northwest on Monday, the latest health emergency for a country already fighting an epidemic of the deadly fever in the east as well as a surging number of coronavirus infections.
“The National Institute of Biomedical Research has confirmed to me that samples from Mbandaka tested positive for Ebola,” Longondo told a press conference on Monday. Equateur province was previously hit by an Ebola outbreak between May and July 2018, in which 33 people died and 21 recovered from the disease.
The eastern epidemic was just three days away from being declared over on April 10 when a new case was reported. Two experimental vaccines have been widely deployed to fight the outbreak, with more than 300,000 people vaccinated across the country.
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