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Congo-Kinshasa: Seven Factors That Turned Round the Ebola Outbreak
The Conversation Africa, 8 March 2020
The last patient receiving treatment for Ebola was recently discharged from an Ebola Treatment Centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Agencies Appeal for Funding for Refugee Support and Ebola Response
UN News, 6 March 2020
Urgent resources are needed to support countries in southern Africa and the Great Lakes region which are hosting more than 900,000 refugees and asylum seekers from the Democratic… Read more »
DR Congo's Last Ebola Patient Discharged from Treatment Centre
After months of battling an Ebola virus outbreak that killed more than 2,200 people, UN officials are "cautiously optimistic" that the epidemic in the northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo will soon be history. In an emotional ceremony, the last Ebola patient in the DRC was discharged from the treatment centre in Beni, the World Health Organization reported. With no more confirmed cases, a 42-day countdown to declaring the end of the world's second-deadliest Ebola epidemic began on March 2.
Dr Keïta, World Health Organisation Beni Field Coordinator, congratulates Masiko Muhaso, the last patient to leave the Ebola treatment centre,
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