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The deadliest ever Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now claimed the lives of more than 3,000 people, according to the latest official toll released on Wednesday.
News Democratic Republic Congo » Kinshasa » History: DRC’s Ebola epidemic could be the worst in history: 4 things that could help end it
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s fight against Ebola has reached a tipping point. It can accelerate what it has been doing to bring the latest outbreak under control, or risk allowing it to persist ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Kinshasa » History: Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo Authorities Warn Ebola Outbreak Is Worst to Date and Yet to Peak
The Democratic Republic of Congo's latest Ebola outbreak has become the deadliest in the country's history, surpassing the devastating 2018-2020 epidemic even as health authorities warn that the ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Kinshasa » History: Dr Congo Ebola Outbreak Deadliest In History As Death Toll Rises To 2,300
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has become the deadliest in the country's history with over 2,300 deaths reported, according to the latest official figures ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Kinshasa » History: DR Congo tests Ebola treatments and vaccines amid country's worst-ever epidemic
More than 2,700 people have died since the official declaration of the epidemic in the DRC in mid-May. Health organizations are racing to develop effective therapies, including antivirals, monoclonal ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Kinshasa » History: As Congo Ebola deaths pass 3,000, officials seek to track spread via mobile data
As the death toll from its Ebola outbreak exceeds 3,000, the Democratic Republic of Congo is using cell data to map travel routes out of the epidemic's hotspots. The pioneering approach aims to ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Kinshasa » History: DR Congo capital wary of Ebola nightmare
The Ebola virus has spread across Democratic Republic of Congo at a frightening speed and one of the authorities' biggest fears is that it reaches the teeming capital of Kinshasa. That is why Yves ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Kinshasa » History: Congo bans gatherings in Kinshasa and three provinces over Ebola outbreak
DAKAR, June 29 (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has banned public gatherings in four provinces, including the capital, Kinshasa, as the country battles a deadly Ebola outbreak. The ban ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Kinshasa » History: Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been known in the past as, in chronological order, the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, the Republic of the Congo-Léopoldville, the Democratic Republic of the ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Kinshasa » History: DR Congo weighs price of security in minerals deal with US
A minerals-for-security deal between the United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a constitutional challenge in Kinshasa, with critics warning the government may be underselling ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Kinshasa » History: Thousands of Ervebo vaccine doses arrive in Ebola-stricken Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Ervebo vaccine is most effective against the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus, however the WHO said it may provide some protection against the current Bundibugyo strain.