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“It is a race against the clock.” Supplies were being rushed to Ituri in the northeastern corner of the country, where nearly a million individuals have been displaced by armed conflicts over mineral resources. Ramping up contact tracing is a priority, Kayikwamba Wagner stated.
There are now 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths, though more are expected as surveillance expands. “We are trying to catch up,” Congo Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner told the AP.
The World Health Organization stated that the outbreak now poses a “very high” risk for Congo — up from a previous categorization of “high” — although that the risk of the disease spreading globally remains low. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated 82 cases and seven deaths have been confirmed in Congo, although that the outbreak is believed to be “much larger.” There is no available vaccine for the Bundibugyo virus, which spread undetected for weeks in Congo’s Ituri Province following the first known death while authorities tested for another, more common, Ebola virus and came up negative.
Authorities in northeastern Congo have banned funeral wakes and gatherings of over 50 individuals to curb a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak. BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in northeastern Congo banned funeral wakes and gatherings of over 50 individuals Friday in an effort to curb a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak in a region where medical workers have struggled with a lack of resources and pushback from angry residents.
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