The director of the WHO will visit the Congolese areas affected by Ebola

Geneva, 4 November (Prensa Latina) The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 5 to 9 November, where several regions are emerging. Ebola virus.

The WHO delegation, also made up of UN Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, is expected to meet the authorities in Kinshasa, the first to respond to the epidemic, as well as the United Nations Office, its staff and humanitarian staff. the 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, until 1 November, there were 279 cases of Ebola virus in the DRC, 244 confirmed by laboratory tests, 179 people died of the disease and 81 people were able to recover.

The press pointed out that it was the worst epidemic of this disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last ten years. The second declared in 2018, just eight days after the Minister of Health, Oly Ilunga, announced the end of the previous outbreak in the north-west of the country.

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