Death toll from 11-month-old epidemic of Ebola in eastern DRC tops 1,600 mark
Ebola workers enter a house to decontaminate the body of a woman suspected of dying from Ebola, before the vehicle of the Health Ministry Ebola response team was attacked in Beni, northeastern DRC, June 24, 2019.
Deaths from an 11-month-old epidemic of Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have crossed the 1,600 mark, and a new fatality has been reported near the border with Uganda, the Health Ministry said on Friday. As of Thursday, the health authorities had recorded 2,382 cases of Ebola, of which 1,606 had been fatal, it said.
A ministry spokesman told AFP news agency that a patient whose infection had been reported on Monday in Ariwara, in Ituri province bordering Uganda, had died.
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