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Congo working to stop new Ebola outbreak in country’s east amid COVID-19 resurgence
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have confirmed another Ebola outbreak in the country’s east, the fourth in less than three years.
Key points:
- This is the 12th outbreak in conflict-ridden Congo
- The 2018 outbreak in Eastern Congo was the second deadliest in the world
- Health officials worry the new outbreak could badly affect the nation’s fragile health system
A woman died in Butembo town in North Kivu province on February 3, Congo’s Minister of Health Eteni Longondo announced.
The woman from the nearby village of Biena felt sick for a few days before being tested in a clinic there.
She then went to a hospital but died before receiving the results.
Mr Longondo said the Government had begun tracing everyone who had come in…
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