WHO chief calls for DRC ceasefire to tackle Ebola outbreak

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Aid group Save the Children stated on Wednesday that a quarter of the confirmed deaths were children, calling for infection prevention measures to be urgently scaled up. Aid groups are rushing staff and equipment to eastern DRC although attacks on medics due to community distrust have hampered efforts, they say.

The country’s health ministry stated on Tuesday that 101 cases had been confirmed, and it was looking into over 3,000 possible contacts. In Uganda there seven confirmed cases and one death as of Sunday, WHO data showed.

Tedros stated on Monday that he would travel to the DRC this week. The number of suspected cases in eastern DRC is nearing 1,000, with no fewer than 220 suspected deaths.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns of ‘catastrophic collision of disease and conflict’, as Uganda closes border with DRC Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns of ‘catastrophic collision of disease and conflict’, as Uganda closes border with DRC The head of the World Health Organization has called for an immediate ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to help tackle the Ebola outbreak there, as Uganda closed its border with its neighbour in an effort to stop the spread. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted on social media that the region was in the midst of a “catastrophic collision of disease and conflict with the Ebola outbreak in Ituri province outpacing the response”.

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