World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has called an Emergency Committee meeting on the Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has already claimed around 130 lives.
The WHO has assessed the national and regional risk of the current Ebola outbreak in DRC as "very high," although the global risk remains low and, so far, the UN's health watchdog has not called for any trade or travel restrictions to be imposed.
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