•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 More than 2,000 Ebola cases, including 754 deaths, have been recorded in the DR Congo, where the World Health Organisation warns the outbreak may be two to four times larger than official figures suggest. The outbreak has spread to five provinces in the central African country, according to the latest figures released by [&hell...
•Ebola outbreak The main airport in Ituri, the DR Congo province at the epicentre of an Ebola outbreak, reopened today after a 10-day closure for safety reasons, the government said. The Democratic Republic of Congo is battling a major epidemic of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever that is suspected to have killed at least 246 […]...
•Ebola outbreak Lagos State government, in conjunction with the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), have adopted a stronger approach in ensuring that Nigeria and Nigerians are well protected against the raging Ebola that is rising rapidly in some parts of Africa, especially in Congo, where it has already claimed so many lives. The Mur...
•Ebola outbreak India and the African Union (AU), yesterday, postponed the India-Africa Forum Summit scheduled for next week in New Delhi, due to the “emerging public health situation” in Africa, India’s foreign ministry said, in an apparent reference to the Ebola outbreak. A first Ebola case was confirmed in the DR Congo’s rebel-held South ...
•Ebola outbreak The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has placed airlines and airport authorities on high alert following the fresh outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in parts of East and Central Africa. The aviation regulatory agency has therefore directed operators – aviation agencies and airlines to immediately strengthen health surveill...
The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has declared the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS), following rising infections, deaths and fears of wider regional transmission. According to the agency, about 395 susp...
•Health workers carry body of Ebola victim Uganda’s health ministry said it had confirmed an outbreak of the highly infectious Ebola virus, and that a man had died from the disease after travelling from the Democratic Republic of Congo. A major outbreak of the virus was declared in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that […]
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