Health officials also said a total of 2,231 people have died out of 3,373 declared cases of Ebola in the current epidemic.
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The new vaccine, produced by a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, will be administered to about 50,000 people
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It will arrive in the eastern city of Goma, in North Kivu province, on October 18 and be used from the beginning of next month
Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu said there had been no confirmed cases of Ebola in Tanzania, which shares a border with the DRC
The group says “up to 2,000-2,5000 people could be vaccinated every day, against the current 50-1,000 people”
Ilunga, who resigned as health minister in July, was detained while hiding in an apartment in Kinshasa
The child, who is of Congolese origin, was diagnosed after exhibiting symptoms at a border crossing
The first death in South Kivu was a woman in her twenties who evaded movement controls to travel from the North Kivu town of Beni
Last year, cases more than doubled to almost 350,000 from 2017, according to the World Health Organization