The epidemic in the country affected 7 states! The number of cases exceeded 8 thousand

Accordingly, the number of confirmed cases in the epidemic affecting 65 regions of 7 states of the country increased to 8 thousand 978 and the number of deaths increased to 4 thousand 336.

While 2,356 people recovered from the epidemic, the death rate of the virus was 48.3 percent and the follow-up rate of contacts was 81 percent.

In the last 24 hours, 18 people, including a doctor in Tshopo province, recovered. No new confirmed cases were recorded in Bas-Uele, South Kivu and South Ubangi provinces in the last 24 hours.

EBOLA CAUSED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO DIE IN AFRICA

The Ebola virus, which causes a type of hemorrhagic fever, first appeared in 1976 with simultaneous epidemics in Nzara, Sudan, and Yambuku, DRC.

Since the epidemic in the DRC started in a village near the Ebola River, the disease was named after this river.

The Ebola virus spread in West Africa in December 2013. In the epidemic seen in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone between 2014 and 2017, 30 thousand people were infected with the virus and more than 11 thousand of the patients died.

An epidemic was declared in the country on May 15, following 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths announced in Ituri province in the east of the DRC.

According to health officials, there is no approved treatment or vaccine for the "Bundibugyo" Ebola variant that broke out in May.