Children return to school in DR Congo amid growing concerns over Ebola
Children return to school in DR Congo amid growing concerns over Ebola
Children return to school in DR Congo amid growing concerns over Ebola

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DR Congo miners risk Ebola to make a living
The priorities are clear: reach every affected area, protect frontline workers, and turn commitments into action.

Health authorities are warning that ‘approximately one person has been dying from Ebola every thirty minutes’.
The doses are the first of 70,000 allocated for Kinshasa as experts warn of the virus’s exponential spread.
Epidemic remains out of control amid DR Congo conflict, funding shortages and attacks on health workers and facilities
WHO says vaccines for Ebola virus disease being allocated to DRC amid largest outbreak that has killed nearly 2,500.
Officials warn they are continuing to identify new chains of transmission that need to be broken to stop the spread.

The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo can be brought under control in three months.
A top UN official says ‘speed, scale, and solidarity’ needed ‘before this virus gets even further ahead of us’.

Virus spreading in DRC faster than containment efforts.