GENEVA : The World Health Organization is investigating a new case of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the WHO chief said Saturday.
“WHO is working with the government of DRC on the investigation of a case of Ebola in North Kivu,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted on Saturday.
On Friday, the Congolese health ministry confirmed that a child who died in the eastern North Kivu Province on October 6 had contracted the viral disease.
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According to Sputnik, the patient came from Butsili, which is close to the town of Beni, the epicenter of the previous large outbreak, and to Butembo, which experienced a new Ebola outbreak in May.
Congo’s last major outbreak of Ebola had infected 3,481 people between 2018 and 2020, killing 2,299. The flare-up in Butembo was over after three months with 11 confirmed cases and six deaths, it reported further. (ANI)
