{"id":9858,"date":"2020-06-02T09:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T06:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=9858"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:06","slug":"dr-congo-reports-fresh-outbreak-of-ebola-in-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/06\/02\/dr-congo-reports-fresh-outbreak-of-ebola-in-northwest\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo Reports Fresh Outbreak of Ebola in Northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Following four deaths in western Congo, 1,000km from the ongoing outbreak, authorities have reported a new Ebola epidemic. &#8220;COVID-19 is not the only health threat people face,&#8221; WHO chief Tedros said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared a new Ebola epidemic Monday in the western city of Mbandaka, more than 1,000km (620 miles) away from an ongoing outbreak in the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health Minister Eteni Longondo said four people who died were confirmed as positive cases following tests. &#8220;We are going to very quickly send the vaccine and medicine [to Mbandaka],&#8221; Longondo told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A new #Ebola outbreak detected in western #DRC, near Mbandaka, \u00c9quateur province. @MinSanteRDC has identified 6 cases, of which 4 people have died,&#8221; World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This outbreak is a reminder that #COVID19 is not the only health threat people face,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DRC&#8217;s 11th outbreak<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DRC has been struggling to put an end to a nearly two-year-old Ebola outbreak near its eastern borders with Rwanda and Uganda which has left more than 2,200 people dead. The current epidemic has been the second-deadliest outbreak of the disease on record. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202006020039.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following four deaths in western Congo, 1,000km from the ongoing outbreak, authorities have reported a new Ebola epidemic. &#8220;COVID-19 is not the only health threat people face,&#8221; WHO chief Tedros&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}