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"In total, there were 502 deaths and 271 people healed," said Friday a Ministry of Health newsletter released Friday, reporting on the epidemic in the east of the country.
However, Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga said that for the first time, a vaccination program had helped protect 76,425 people and avoid "thousands" of deaths.
"I think we have prevented the spread of the epidemic in the big cities" of the region, he said.
"The teams have also managed to limit the spread of the epidemic in neighboring countries," he added.
"The biggest problem is the high mobility of the population," added the minister.
The epidemic began last August in the North Kivu region, bordering Uganda and Rwanda.
The Spanish wing of the aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported on Saturday on Twitter that there had been an increase in the number of cases since January 15th.
Rwanda, Uganda and southern Sudan, further north, are now all on alert, he added.
The security situation in the east of the country, where armed rebels have terrorized the population for years, makes it difficult to treat the disease.
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