Published : 25 Jul 2026, 02:39 AM
Updated : 08 Sep 2026, 09:27 AM
The number of people confirmed infected with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo was heading towards 3,000 on Friday after officials reviewed data in two of the worst-hit provinces and reported more than 300 new cases.
• The number of confirmed Ebola cases was 2,905, including 1,269 deaths, according to the daily report from the central African country's public health institute.
• The number of confirmed deaths passed the 1,000 mark in figures announced late on Wednesday.
• The World Health Organization has said the true scale of the outbreak could be two to four times larger than official data suggest.
• The Ebola outbreak, Congo's 17th, was declared in mid-May but experts believe infections started circulating weeks earlier.
• It is caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus, which has a fatality rate of about 40 percent. There is no approved vaccine.
• Congo's public health institute said the increase reported on Friday was largely driven by the reconciliation of data from Ituri and North Kivu provinces with national figures.
