1,108 people arrested in 3 days for contravening lockdown rules: Cele
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Africa's weak health systems face escalating virus peril
Earth's poorest continent has so far confirmed around 1,800 cases and 57 deaths -- a tally that is low compared with Europe, the Middle East and Asia, but is now ratcheting up quickly as testing remains patchy.
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Gabon bans tourists from seeing gorillas over coronavirus fears
The Central African nation has one only confirmed COVID-19 case so far, but fears linger after an Ebola epidemic in 1995 wiped out more than 90% of the gorillas in the verdant north.
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What’s the difference between pandemic, epidemic and outbreak?
It's a matter of scale, writes Rebecca SB Fischer.
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DR Congo hopes to declare end to Ebola outbreak in April
While the world's attention has been focused on the coronavirus, the last patient under treatment for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo was discharged on Tuesday.
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Africa looks to Ebola lessons in fight against coronavirus
In 2014, an Ebola outbreak stormed West Africa, leaving more than 11,000 dead mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and also reaching Nigeria and Mali.
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DR Congo Ebola death toll 2,231 to date - monitoring agency
Deadly unrest in the fragile state has hampered the fight against the disease during the latest epidemic, which broke out on 1 August 2018, with the eastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri particularly badly hit.
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WHO: Ebola spreads in Congo after militants attack treatment camp
The WHO says 27 ebola cases were confirmed in North Kivu and Ituri provinces in the week through 10 December, against an average of seven in the last three weeks.
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MSF pulls staff from DR Congo's east after incident
The NGO becomes the latest aid agency to withdraw its staff from the Biakato region after an unclaimed attack last week saw three Ebola workers killed at an accommodation camp in Biakato Mines in Ituri province.
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WHO, Unicef evacuate 76 staff from Ebola teams in Congo due to insecurity
Rebels believed to belong to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) killed eight people in an overnight raid on Sunday.
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WHO: Insecurity threatens chance to end DRC Ebola outbreak
The affected eastern DRC provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, suffer from chronic insecurity, with various militia groups operating in the region.
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Congo president says Ebola outbreak should be over this year
The epidemic in Congo was declared in August 2018 and has so far killed nearly 2,200 people, making it the second-worst outbreak of the virus on record behind the 2013-16 West African outbreak that killed more than 11,300.
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Second Ebola vaccine introduced in DR Congo
The new J&J vaccine had initially been rejected by DRC's former health minister Oly Ilunga, who cited the risks of introducing a new product in communities where mistrust of Ebola responders is already high.
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Lesotho ministry corrects minister's Ebola confirmation as simulation exercise
Lesotho's Health Minister Nkaku Kabi is due to give an update on the simulation today.
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UPDATE: Lesotho officials admit Ebola case was a simulation
The Lesotho health ministry is expected to provide further details on the incident on Thursday morning.
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WHO pre-qualifies first Ebola vaccine
The announcement comes hot on the heels of a decision last Monday by the European Commission to allow the release to market of an injectable vaccine.
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Ebola concentrated in Congo mining area, still an emergency - WHO
The virus has infected 3,227 people and killed 2,154 of them since the outbreak was declared in August 2018 and went on to became the world’s second-worst outbreak, it said.
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Ebola still an 'urgent' global health emergency: WHO
DRC's latest Ebola epidemic, which began in August 2018, has killed 2,144 people, making it the second deadliest outbreak of the virus, after the West Africa pandemic of 2014-2016.
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Ebola survivors battle grief and stigma in eastern Congo
More than 3,200 people are known to have been infected with the virus, of whom more than 2,100 have died since the outbreak was declared in the eastern region.
