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New suspected Ebola case recorded in northwest Congo

A day after recording the first confirmed death in a new outbreak of Ebola virus, the Democratic Republic of Congo has recorded another fresh case in the northwestern part of the country.

Confirming the case in a chat with Reuters, the director of the main hospital in Democratic Republic of Congo’s northwestern town of Bikoro said the health Centre received a new case.

After announcing the first confirmed death a day ago in a new outbreak of the virus, Congo’s health minister said 11 other were confirmed to be infected, including three medical staff.

“One of the defining features of this epidemic is the fact that three health professionals have been affected,” Health Minister Oly Ilunga said in a statement. “This situation worries us and requires an immediate and energetic response.”

Read also: DRC: 17 feared dead as Ebola outbreak is confirmed

24-hours ago, the World Health Organisations has revealed that it has developed an experimental vaccine for the dreaded Ebola virus which has been recorded in some African countries.

WHO says it hopes to deploy the experimental Ebola vaccine to tackle an outbreak in a remote area of the Congo Democratic Republic to prevent it spreading, particularly to the provincial capital which has over 1 million people.

Reports say WHO is moving quickly, having been criticised for bungling its response to a 2014-2016 outbreak that killed more than 11,300 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

 

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