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On August 1, 2018, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared its tenth outbreak of Ebola in 40 years. The home is located in the north-east of the country. With a number of cases exceeding 2,500, it is by far the largest epidemic of Ebola ever recorded in the country. It is also the second largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded, behind the 2014-2016 West Africa epidemic.
During the first eight months of the epidemic, up to March 2019, more than 1,000 cases of Ebola were reported in the affected region. However, between April and June 2019, this number doubled and an additional 1,000 new cases were reported during these three months only. Since the beginning of June, the number of new cases notified per week has remained high, averaging between 75 and 100 per week.
Latest figures – information as of July 31, 2019; figures provided by the DRC Ministry of Health.
2.701: TOTAL CASES
2.607: CONFIRMED BUSINESS
1,813: DEATHS CONFIRMED
In addition, it is difficult to identify and follow the contacts of people diagnosed with the Ebola virus. Since the beginning of the epidemic, only about half of the new reported Ebola cases have been identified as previously confirmed case contacts before falling ill and seeking treatment, or dying without receiving a appropriate treatment for Ebola.
On June 11, 2019, Uganda announced that the diagnosis of Ebola had been made to three people, the first transboundary cases recorded since the beginning of the epidemic. The country has not recorded any other cases.
On July 14, the first case of Ebola was confirmed in Goma, the capital of North Kivu, and a city of one million inhabitants. The patient, who traveled from Butembo to Goma, was admitted to MSF-supported Ebola treatment center in Goma. After confirming the results of the laboratory, the Ministry of Health decided to transfer the patient to Butembo on July 15, where he died the next day.
On July 30, a second person in Goma was diagnosed with the Ebola virus; they died the next day and a third case was announced.
In response to the first case discovered in Goma on July 17, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the current Ebola outbreak in the DRC constituted a public health emergency of concern International (PHEIC).
MSF believes that Ebola-related activities need to be integrated into the existing health care system, in order to strengthen the proximity of services to the community and to ensure that they remain functional during the outbreak.
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