WHO chief warns Ebola response must ramp up to stem DRC outbreak
- Number of people killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo from disease exceeds 3,000 amid response funding gap.
- The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that every transmission chain needs to be identified and broken if the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to be contained.
- Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Wednesday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that until every chain is broken, the epidemic “will continue to pose a threat to [the] DRC, its neighbours and the region as a whole”.
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- Number of people killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo from disease exceeds 3,000 amid response funding gap.
- The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that every transmission chain needs to be identified and broken if the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to be contained.
- Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Wednesday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that until every chain is broken, the epidemic “will continue to pose a threat to [the] DRC, its neighbours and the region as a whole”.
Sources: Al Jazeera