•Ebola outbreak A UK medic who tested positive for Ebola while working on the outbreak of the disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been flown to London for treatment, the government said yesterday. The unnamed British citizen “has returned to the UK for specialist treatment after testing positive for the disease”, the government [&h...
•Health workers in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Africa’s latest outbreak of Ebola has passed 10,000 confirmed cases, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese health authorities said today. According to the DRC’s figures, 10,060 people have been infected and 4,887 have died since the virus was first de...
•Ebola outbreak The Ebola patient in Nigeria is a Swiss woman and the wife of a staff member at Switzerland’s embassy in Abuja, Bern said today. The couple had recently travelled together to Uganda, but neither of them had visited the Democratic Republic of Congo — the epicentre of the current outbreak, the Swiss foreign […]
•Ebola outbreak The United States announced yesterday the release of an additional $267 million to support the fight against the ongoing Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). “To date, the United States government has provided $887 million in direct health and humanitarian assistance to combat the Ebola outbreak,” the U...
•Ebola outbreak The worst Ebola outbreak to hit the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has killed more than 3,400 people, is still spreading in a key province despite an improvement in other regions, the World Health Organization said today. The huge African nation’s government indicated at the weekend that the outbreak may have peaked in [&h...
•Ebola outbreak More than 16,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) late yesterday, our correspondent saw, as the country faces the deadliest Ebola outbreak in its history. The DRC’s 17th Ebola outbreak, which has killed thousands of people, was declared on May 15 but is thought to have […]
•Ebola outbreak The Ebola outbreak raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo is growing “exponentially”, with more than 2,500 deaths now recorded, with half in the last 20 days, the United Nations’ senior Ebola coordinator said today. The Ebola outbreak is already the biggest in the country’s history and is spreading faster than any outbreak ...
•Ebola outbreak An Ebola outbreak has now killed 2,325 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, making it the country’s deadliest outbreak of the virus, according to government figures released today. The United Nations says that the Ebola outbreak “is the fastest-growing on record” and is killing a victim every 30 minutes in the DRC, [&hel...
•Ebola outbreak An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has killed 2,011 people out of 4,381 confirmed cases of the virus, Congolese officials said today. The latest toll puts it close behind the DRC’s deadliest Ebola outbreak in 2018 to 2020, when nearly 2,300 people died out of 3,500 recorded cases, reports […]
•Ebola outbreak The World Health Organisation warned today that Ebola was spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo at a faster pace than during any previous outbreak of the deadly virus. More than 2,000 cases including 796 deaths have been confirmed in the DR Congo since the outbreak was declared on May 15, making it […]
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