World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo for a meeting with President Felix Tshisekedi, as the Ebola epidemic intensifies, the UN agency said on Wednesday.
DR Congo declared its 17th Ebola outbreak on May 15 and at the weekend the WHO warned that it was spreading at an "exceptional" pace, urging a scaling-up of the health response.
There have been 3,874 confirmed cases and 1,751 deaths since the start of the outbreak, the world health body said.
The deadliest outbreak was between 2018 and 2020, with nearly 2,300 deaths out of 3,500 recorded cases.
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