“A new Ebola outbreak has been detected in the western Democratic Republic of the Congo , near Mbandaka, in the province of Équateur,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on his Twitter account.
The head of that UN body has specified that the Ministry of Health of that African country has identified six cases of Ebola, of which four had fatal consequences.
Adhanom Ghebreyesus has pointed out that this outbreak is taking place while the Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the final phase of its fight against the Ebola virus in the east of the country, while fighting the covid-19 pandemic and “the outbreak of world’s largest measles. “Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus✔@DrTedros
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been trying for almost two years to end the Ebola outbreak near its eastern borders with Rwanda and Uganda, a health crisis that has killed more than 2,200 people in an area where no new cases have been detected. in over a month.