While the world's attention has been focused on the coronavirus, the last patient under treatment for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo was discharged on Tuesday.
KINSHASA - DR Congo health officials said Monday they were "keeping fingers crossed" to declare the end of the devastating 19-month Ebola epidemic next month.
"Today, March 9 is the 21st day without any new confirmed case," said Jean-Jacques Muyembe, who is in charge of the Ebola fight. "The greatest challenge for us today is to follow up on survivors because some continue to secrete the virus in their seminal fluids," he said, adding that they were being treated to avoid infecting their partners.
It has killed 2,264 people in DR Congo in the vast central African country's 10th Ebola epidemic since 1976.
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