KINSHASA, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A second person has contracted Ebola and died this week in Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, the World Health Organization and the health ministry said in a statement.
The cases mark a resurgence in the world’s second-biggest outbreak, which was declared over last June, they said in the statement.
DR Congo announced a “resurgence” of Ebola in its troubled east after a woman died of the disease, its first case just three months after authorities declared the end of the country’s latest outbreak.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it had dispatched a team of epidemiologists to the scene of the latest death to investigate.
The first victim was married to an Ebola survivor.
Butembo and Beni in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were the epicenters of a previous outbreak that runs from August 1, 2018, to June 25, 2020, that killed more than 2,200 people.
The virus that causes the disease is believed to reside in bats. — NNN-AGENCIES
