Ebola: New Cases Confirmed by World Health Organisation

The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday reported a fresh cluster of Ebola infections in the country’s northwest, exacerbating a health emergency that already includes another lingering outbreak of the virus and rising cases of Covid-19.
Five people have died from Ebola and four others are being treated for the virus in Mbandaka, a city of around one million that sits on the Congo River, said Unicef, the United Nations Children’s Fund, which has an office there.
Officials have yet to confirm whether the cases are related to an outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever in Eastern Congo, more than 1,000 miles from Mbandaka. But the city was at the center of an earlier Ebola outbreak in May 2018, suggesting that the cases there may be the result of a new instance of animal-to-human transmission of the virus. Humans can get Ebola by coming in contact with the bodily fluids of an infected animal. “This is a reminder that Covid-19 is not the only health threat people face,” said Tedros Adhanom, the World Health Organization’s director-general.
The outbreak in Mbandaka is a setback for Congolese and international health workers, who have been trying since August 2018 to stem an Ebola outbreak in the country’s restive east. That outbreak has killed at least 2,280 people and infected more than 3,400.
Congo, one of the world’s poorest countries, is battling to keep the coronavirus at bay. It has 3,195 confirmed cases, including 72 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University’s global tally, although testing has been limited. Since last year, Congo has also recorded 369,520 cases of measles, including 6,779 that were fatal.
Health officials are particularly concerned about the new Ebola cases in Mbandaka, because the city is a hub for travel to Congo’s capital, Kinshasa—a metropolis of some 12 million—as well as neighboring countries. The city is just miles from Congo’s border with the Republic of Congo. Residents also travel to the war-torn Central African Republic, whose health system is even weaker than that of the DRC.
Mr. Longondo said that his ministry was dispatching doses of a new Ebola vaccine to Mbandaka and that local authorities know how to respond to the virus thanks to the 2018 outbreak. During that outbreak, 33 people died and 21 recovered while fears that the virus would spread to other parts of the country or abroad didn’t come to pass.
Is ebola still showing its ugly head at time COVID is ravaging the world? God help us.
Ebola better go back to where ur coming from
This Ebola don’t want to go away
God will put total end to it,and it will not spread in Jesus name
Amen it wil not
May God heal all the world
Is in your hand we put our trust
So Ebola still dey
Nawoo so Ebola is existing even with this corona things
Every day,fresh cases.only God will help us
Yes ooo in God we trust
Ebola again, we disagree go back
I can’t believe this. We haven’t finished with one and another is coming up!!
God please help us and heal the world
Make God save us
God will help us from all this bad diseases o
May God help us ooo
That’s so Terrible
From one pandemic to another,God will heal the land
Don’t mind them they know what they are doing