2026-07-16 18:33 UTC
Yesterday marked two months since the DRC declared the ongoing Ebola outbreak, WHO head Tedros says in presser.
"It's now the third largest Ebola outbreak on record, and in the past months, it has expanded faster than any previous outbreak."
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@kakape@mas.to 2026-07-16 18:34
2073 Ebola cases have been confirmed in the DRC including 796 deaths. The 2018-19 outbreak in the DRC took more than 10 months to reach 2000 confirmed cases, Tedros points out. "Intense transmission in the province of Ituri remains our biggest concern."