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"The current vaccination campaign has reached 98% of the target group and the organization has received no reports of deaths after the release of its latest report on August 2," Euronews said.
The network said that the city of "Goma", home to about 2 million people, is on the list of areas vulnerable to the spread of the epidemic in recent weeks.
At least 1,800 people have died in the past year as a result of an Ebola outbreak in the DRC, where armed militia violence is hampering efforts to control the virus.
According to the World Health Organization's website, Ebola virus disease, formerly known as "Ebola haemorrhagic fever", infects humans and the virus is transmitted to humans through infections. wild animals, then pbaded on to healthy people. The mortality rate among infected people is about 50% on average. Between 25% and 90%.
The first cases of Ebola were first detected in 1976 during two epidemics that occurred simultaneously in the Sudanese region of Nizara and in a village in Yamboku District (DRC) near the Ebola River, where the disease has been named.
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