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DRC authorities warn Ebola outbreak is worst to date and yet to peak

Health workers at the Bunia Evangelical Medical Centre in Ituri Province, DRC, 31 May.
Health workers at the Bunia Evangelical Medical Centre in Ituri Province, DRC, 31 May. © REUTERS - Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak has become the deadliest in the country’s history, surpassing the devastating 2018-2020 epidemic even as health authorities warn that the current outbreak is yet to reach its peak.

Since the beginning of what is the seventeenth Ebola outbreak recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the haemorrhagic disease has killed at least 2,325 people out of 4,945 confirmed cases as of 15 August, according to the latest national health ministry report seen by RFI.

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