Third Ebola case in North Kivu province of DRC Confirmed
Case found in Butembo, epicentre of a major outbreak that was declared over last June after nearly two years.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has confirmed a third Ebola case this week in North Kivu province, provincial health minister Eugene Nzanzu Salita has said.
The case was found in Butembo, a city of more than one million people and the epicentre of a major outbreak of the disease that was declared over last June after nearly two years.
“We are in a meeting to gather all the information on the investigations done around this case,” Salita said on Friday.
Congo’s health ministry announced a resurgence of the disease on February 7, after a woman contracted Ebola and died. She was married to a survivor of the previous outbreak.
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