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The director of the WHO will visit the Congolese areas affected by Ebola
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization, photo: Internet.
Geneva, Nov. 3 (RHC) World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from January 5 to 9, where several regions are experiencing Ebola .
The WHO delegation, also made up of UN Deputy Secretary General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, is expected to meet with the authorities in Kinshasa, the first to respond to the outbreak, and the office of the United Nations Secretary-General. UN, its staff and humanitarian partners.
The mission will visit the province of North Kivu, in the east of the country, where the Ebola haemorrhagic fever virus outbreak is currently taking place.
According to the WHO, there were 279 cases of Ebola virus infection in the Democratic Republic of Congo until the 24th of this month, 244 were confirmed by laboratory tests, 179 people died from following the disease and 81 were able to recover.
The media pointed out that it was the worst disease outbreak in the country in the last decade and the second reported in 2008, just eight days after the Minister of Health, Oly Ilunga announced the end of the previous epidemic in the northwest of the country.
(Source: PL).
Published by Bárbara Gómez
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