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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Friday, March 29, 2018, 15 new confirmed cases of Ebola were confirmed, the largest increase in a day since the declaration of the last outbreak in August, announced the Ministry of Health .
One day after the confirmation of 14 new cases, this figure means that the epidemic is about to register one of its highest weekly cases, although health officials have said it was only two weeks ago that she was largely under control and that she could be curbed in September.
Health workers provided new tools to fight the latest outbreak of haemorrhagic fever, including a vaccine and several treatments, but community mistrust of first responders and acts of violence by militia delayed the campaign.
Five Ebola centers have been attacked since last month, sometimes by armed badailants. The violence has led the French medical charity Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend its activities at the epicenter of the epidemic last month.
The current virus outbreak, which causes severe vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding, is the second most important in the history of the West Africa epidemic. 2013-2016 that claimed the lives of more than 11,000 people.
The Congolese Ministry of Health said that as of Friday, the epidemic has killed 660 people and infected 399 others.
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