(AP) Health officials have confirmed a second Ebola outbreak in Congo, the head of the World Health Organization said Monday, adding yet another health crisis for a country already battling COVID-19 and the world’s largest measles outbreak.
Congo also has yet to declare an official end to Ebola in its troubled east, where at least 2,243 people have died since an epidemic began there in August 2018.
Now Congolese health authorities have identified six cases in the north near Mbandaka in Equateur province, including four fatalities, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted Monday.
“The country is also in final phase of battling Ebola in eastern DRC, COVID19 & the world’s largest measles outbreak,” he tweeted.
This marks the second time Ebola has hit Equateur province in as many years: A 2018 outbreak there killed 33 people before the disease was brought under control in a matter of months.
The last known patient in Congo’s eastern outbreak was released in mid-May but the country now must go about another month without any new cases before an official end to the outbreak can be declared.
Congo also has confirmed 611 cases of COVID-19, including 20 deaths, and the number is rising, according to figures released Monday by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, like many African countries Congo has conducted extremely limited testing, and observers fear the true toll may be far higher.
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Seems to me that Antigua needs to be cautious about any sickness that illegal immigrants from Jamaican’s and D.R. are bringing here. I heard they have strong strains of STD’s circulating in those places now, and it would be sad if they were being imported into Antigua via illegal immigration.
Why don’t you just shut up and be quiet with your ignorant self ! You sound so dumb and illiterate. How does your stupid comment fit in what was mentioned in the above piece? Anywhere have more STD’s than anu smh . Smh I absolutely hate ur kind . I hope in the future when ppl like u travel (that’s if u even have a passport) cause empty barrels make the most noise. You don’t bring no STD’s go to other country ! I wish I could just deal with u properly on here enu but because I have to be respectful. U stupid , ignorant fowl
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