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The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has taken a new step. The number of cases reported Friday by the country's Ministry of Health has been raised to 800.
The new total includes 739 confirmed and 61 probable cases. After the 2014 outbreak in West Africa, the Ebola outbreak is the second most important in the history of the planet, along with 178 other suspected cases. The death toll has exceeded 500 and is now at 502.
Cases have been confirmed in 18 communities in the provinces of East North Kivu and Ituri, near the borders with South Sudan and Uganda. They understand what is currently 187 confirmed cases, including 106 deaths, in Katwa, with 11 others under investigation. Katwa remains a hot spot with the highest number of deaths behind Beni, which has stabilized at 138 confirmed deaths and nine other suspects.
According to the World Health Organization, Katwa and Butembo reported 71% of cases in the last three weeks, with smaller clusters continuing to occur in a geographically dispersed area.
More recent cases in Kyondo have pushed east into Virunga National Park, where nine fatilities have been confirmed, while cases in Kayina have shown a typical pattern of Ebola infections heading to the South.
The city of Goma, located near the Rwandan border, remains under surveillance and eight suspected cases have not been confirmed. Health officials have stepped up their preparedness efforts ahead of Ebola cases in Goma, as it is a trade and travel hub that opens the door to more worrying spread at the regional and international levels. Rwanda is the next country to start vaccinating its health workers, after South Sudan and Uganda.
More than 76,400 people received the rVSV-ZEBOV approved experimental vaccine, including more than 20,400 in Beni and 19,100 in Katwa.
Currently, 67 health workers have contracted the virus, including new cases in Katwa, according to the report released Thursday by the WHO. At least 22 health workers have died.
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