A Tanzanian government senior official said on Tuesday that Tanzania was on high risk of Ebola outbreak.
The Ebola Virus Disease killed 50 out of 91 patients in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ummy Mwalimu, the east African nation’s Minister for Health, said the high risk categorization followed the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s new statistics showing that the new outbreaks in the DRC have occurred in regions closest to Tanzania than previous cases, including North Kivu and Ituri.
“Analysis by WHO has shown that countries neighboring the DRC including Tanzania are now at high risk of outbreak because North Kivu shares a common border with Uganda and there are many visitors and refugees fleeing from the region to Uganda and Rwanda,” she told a news conference in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.
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