A fresh Ebola outbreak has left four people dead in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, adding to an existing outbreak in the east, as well as the coronavirus pandemic, health officials said on Monday.
“Four people have already died,” Health Minister Eteni Longondo told a press conference.
He said the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB) had confirmed that samples taken in the northwestern city of Mbandaka tested positive, an AFP report said.
There is another Ebola outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo which has killed 2,280 people since August 2018, and had been hoped to be proclaimed over on June 25.
