A new case of Ebola virus has been confirmed in northwestern DR Congo, the National Institute of Biomedical Research announced today, four months after the end of the last outbreak of the disease in the country.
The case was detected in the town of Bandaka, the capital of Equateur province, the institute said.
A spokesman for the health ministry confirmed the news.
Congo has seen 13 outbreaks of Ebola in the past, including one in 2018-2020 in the east that claimed the lives of nearly 2,300 people, the second highest recorded toll from the disease.
During the last outbreak, again in the east, 11 people were infected between October and December and six of them died.
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