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© AFP / Archives | In an Ebola treatment center of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) in Bunia, eastern Congo, November 7, 2018
Nineteen people died in five days of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the death toll to 241 since the declaration of the outbreak on August 1, according to the count of the Ministry of Health.
From Thursday, November 22 to Monday, November 26, 2018, 19 new deaths were recorded, according to the last daily bulletin of the department received Tuesday evening.
"The cumulative number of cases is 421, of which 374 confirmed and 47 probable" while "there were 241 deaths," said the ministry on the situation dated Monday.
In addition, 74 suspected cases were under investigation, according to the same source.
According to one NGO, the threshold of 426 cases will mark the second most serious epidemic in history after that which struck several countries of West Africa in 2014.
This is the tenth Ebola outbreak on Congolese soil. It strikes the Beni region, a city of about 300,000 inhabitants, targeted attacks attributed to Ugandan Muslim rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).
These rebels repeatedly disrupted the fight against the disease in North Kivu.
Ebola appeared for the first time on Congolese soil in 1976.
© 2018 AFP
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