DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak ‘global emergency’ as infections pass 5,000: WHO
Officials warn that they are continuing to identify new chains of transmission that need to be broken to stop the spread. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, saying that the number of cases in the country has passed 5,000. Following an emergency meeting on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to assist in efforts to contain the outbreak, which has killed more than 2,320 people. “We must be frank: The epidemic is far from being under control,” Tedros told the emergency meeting. “It had a big head start, and we are still playing catch-up.” The outbreak is the seventeenth in the DRC and is now the deadliest, exceeding the number of people killed during the 2018 to 2020 outbreak – 2,299. Response efforts have been further complicated by conflict in the mineral-rich DRC, as well as misinformation, distrust of health workers, and cultural traditions, among other factors.
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Officials warn that they are continuing to identify new chains of transmission that need to be broken to stop the spread. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, saying that the number of cases in the country has passed 5,000. Following an emergency meeting on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to assist in efforts to contain the outbreak, which has killed more than 2,320 people. “We must be frank: The epidemic is far from being under control,” Tedros told the emergency meeting. “It had a big head start, and we are still playing catch-up.” The outbreak is the seventeenth in the DRC and is now the deadliest, exceeding the number of people killed during the 2018 to 2020 outbreak – 2,299. Response efforts have been further complicated by conflict in the mineral-rich DRC, as well as misinformation, distrust of health workers, and cultural traditions, among other factors.
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Officials warn that they are continuing to identify new chains of transmission that need to be broken to stop the spread. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, saying that the number of cases in the country has passed 5,000. Following an emergency meeting on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to assist in efforts to contain the outbreak, which has killed more than 2,320 people. “We must be frank: The epidemic is far from being under control,” Tedros told the emergency meeting. “It had a big head start, and we are still playing catch-up.” The outbreak is the seventeenth in the DRC and is now the deadliest, exceeding the number of people killed during the 2018 to 2020 outbreak – 2,299. Response efforts have been further complicated by conflict in the mineral-rich DRC, as well as misinformation, distrust of health workers, and cultural traditions, among other factors.
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Officials warn that they are continuing to identify new chains of transmission that need to be broken to stop the spread. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, saying that the number of cases in the country has passed 5,000. Following an emergency meeting on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to assist in efforts to contain the outbreak, which has killed more than 2,320 people. “We must be frank: The epidemic is far from being under control,” Tedros told the emergency meeting. “It had a big head start, and we are still playing catch-up.” The outbreak is the seventeenth in the DRC and is now the deadliest, exceeding the number of people killed during the 2018 to 2020 outbreak – 2,299. Response efforts have been further complicated by conflict in the mineral-rich DRC, as well as misinformation, distrust of health workers, and cultural traditions, among other factors.
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Officials warn that they are continuing to identify new chains of transmission that need to be broken to stop the spread. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, saying that the number of cases in the country has passed 5,000. Following an emergency meeting on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to assist in efforts to contain the outbreak, which has killed more than 2,320 people. “We must be frank: The epidemic is far from being under control,” Tedros told the emergency meeting. “It had a big head start, and we are still playing catch-up.” The outbreak is the seventeenth in the DRC and is now the deadliest, exceeding the number of people killed during the 2018 to 2020 outbreak – 2,299. Response efforts have been further complicated by conflict in the mineral-rich DRC, as well as misinformation, distrust of health workers, and cultural traditions, among other factors.
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Officials warn that they are continuing to identify new chains of transmission that need to be broken to stop the spread. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, saying that the number of cases in the country has passed 5,000. Following an emergency meeting on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to assist in efforts to contain the outbreak, which has killed more than 2,320 people. “We must be frank: The epidemic is far from being under control,” Tedros told the emergency meeting. “It had a big head start, and we are still playing catch-up.” The outbreak is the seventeenth in the DRC and is now the deadliest, exceeding the number of people killed during the 2018 to 2020 outbreak – 2,299. Response efforts have been further complicated by conflict in the mineral-rich DRC, as well as misinformation, distrust of health workers, and cultural traditions, among other factors.
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Officials warn that they are continuing to identify new chains of transmission that need to be broken to stop the spread. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, saying that the number of cases in the country has passed 5,000. Following an emergency meeting on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to assist in efforts to contain the outbreak, which has killed more than 2,320 people. “We must be frank: The epidemic is far from being under control,” Tedros told the emergency meeting. “It had a big head start, and we are still playing catch-up.” The outbreak is the seventeenth in the DRC and is now the deadliest, exceeding the number of people killed during the 2018 to 2020 outbreak – 2,299. Response efforts have been further complicated by conflict in the mineral-rich DRC, as well as misinformation, distrust of health workers, and cultural traditions, among other factors.
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Officials warn that they are continuing to identify new chains of transmission that need to be broken to stop the spread. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, saying that the number of cases in the country has passed 5,000. Following an emergency meeting on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to assist in efforts to contain the outbreak, which has killed more than 2,320 people. “We must be frank: The epidemic is far from being under control,” Tedros told the emergency meeting. “It had a big head start, and we are still playing catch-up.” The outbreak is the seventeenth in the DRC and is now the deadliest, exceeding the number of people killed during the 2018 to 2020 outbreak – 2,299. Response efforts have been further complicated by conflict in the mineral-rich DRC, as well as misinformation, distrust of health workers, and cultural traditions, among other factors.
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Officials warn that they are continuing to identify new chains of transmission that need to be broken to stop the spread. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, saying that the number of cases in the country has passed 5,000. Following an emergency meeting on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to assist in efforts to contain the outbreak, which has killed more than 2,320 people. “We must be frank: The epidemic is far from being under control,” Tedros told the emergency meeting. “It had a big head start, and we are still playing catch-up.” The outbreak is the seventeenth in the DRC and is now the deadliest, exceeding the number of people killed during the 2018 to 2020 outbreak – 2,299. Response efforts have been further complicated by conflict in the mineral-rich DRC, as well as misinformation, distrust of health workers, and cultural traditions, among other factors.
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Officials warn that they are continuing to identify new chains of transmission that need to be broken to stop the spread. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, saying that the number of cases in the country has passed 5,000. Following an emergency meeting on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to assist in efforts to contain the outbreak, which has killed more than 2,320 people. “We must be frank: The epidemic is far from being under control,” Tedros told the emergency meeting. “It had a big head start, and we are still playing catch-up.” The outbreak is the seventeenth in the DRC and is now the deadliest, exceeding the number of people killed during the 2018 to 2020 outbreak – 2,299. Response efforts have been further complicated by conflict in the mineral-rich DRC, as well as misinformation, distrust of health workers, and cultural traditions, among other factors.