Ebola outbreak WORSENS with 319 dead as migration risks spreading disease across borders
AS MANY as 319 people have been killed by the Ebola virus sweeping Congo as one of the deadliest outbreaks in history threatens to spread across borders.
By Joshua Nevett
DailyStar.co.uk
19th December 2018
Of the 542 people thought to have contracted the lethal disease in the province of North Kivu, 494 has been confirmed, according to the latest figures from Congo’s Ministry of Health.
Of the 319 believed to have died from the virus to date, 271 have been confirmed, the figures show.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is becoming increasingly concerned about Congo’s current outbreak of Ebola, which has ravaged the country’s rural communities this year.
North Kivu, which includes the cities of Beni, Kalunguta and Mabalako, remains the epicentre of the outbreak.
The province is one of the most populated in the country and borders Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan.
Meanwhile, Congolese refugees fleeing across the border to neighbouring Sudan are not being screened for the disease, Sudanese health authorities have confirmed.
“People from neighbouring DR Congo are entering South Sudan without being screened for Ebola due to lack of testing kits,” Tambura State health minister, Mr David Simbi, said on Tuesday.
He said the influx risked spreading the deadly virus across the border.
The new cases will alarm health officials after an unprecedented outbreak of the disease between 2014 and 2016 killed more than 11,000 people across western Africa.
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