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The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) say the Ebola outbreak in DRC remains dangerous and unpredictable.
The Director General of WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus and UN Peacekeeping chief, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, sated this after a joint mission to the epicentre of the epidemic, around the city of Beni close to the Ugandan border,
Ghebreyesus and Lacroix saw conditions on the ground for themselves, along with Minister of Health Oly Kalenga, and they met local officials, health workers, civil society leaders, and peacekeepers.
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The top UN officials, however, noted that new measures to tackle the Ebola outbreak in DRC were working.
Since the outbreak began in August, there have been 308 cases and 191 deaths, about half of which have been in Beni, which has a population of…
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