Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo gave an update on Sunday, December 29, on the Ebola virus disease in the country. 3,373 cases of contamination have been recorded and the epidemic of hemorrhagic fever has already caused the death of 2,231 people since the start of the epidemic in August 2018, according to the authorities, based on the latest count by the Multisectoral Committee of the response to the epidemic.
DR Congo is fighting an epidemic of Ebola virus disease declared on August 1, 2018. The troubled provinces of North Kivu and Ituri in the east are the most affected.
The health authorities also indicate that "341 suspected cases are under investigation".
Disease control efforts are regularly disrupted due to insecurity caused by the presence of numerous militias in the affected areas. Members of anti-Ebola teams have been killed or injured in armed attacks in North Kivu and Ituri.
Anti-Ebola installations have also been the target of attacks in these regions, which have been plagued by violence for two decades.
Since November, more than 200 civilians have been killed in the area in killings attributed to the Ugandan armed group of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).
The current Ebola epidemic is the tenth on Congolese soil since 1976 and the second most serious in history after the one that killed some 11,000 people in West Africa in 2014.
With AFP
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