The World Health Organisation says the attacks are preventing the spread of the disease beyond the country’s borders
Health workers carry a coffin containing a victim of Ebola virus on May 16 2019 in Butembo. Picture: AFP/JOHN WESSELS
Twenty-seven Ebola cases were confirmed in North Kivu and Ituri provinces in the week ending December 10, against an average of seven in the past three weeks, the WHO said.Militia fighters in eastern DRC killed four people and wounded several in attacks on two Ebola response centres two weeks ago, in what responders described as a serious setback to efforts to contain the epidemic.
A helicopter is to be used as an air bridge to ferry epidemiologists and vaccinators to non-secure areas and bring them back the same day, he said, adding that more than 20 people from the stricken Biakato mine area were vaccinated on Thursday. There have been 3,340 Ebola cases including 2,210 deaths in the world’s second largest epidemic that was declared in August 2018, WHO figures show.
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