The number \u200bof confirmed\u00a0Ebola cases\u00a0in \u200cthe Democratic Republic of Congo has passed the 6,000 mark, government data showed \u200bon Monday.<\/p>\n
The epidemic has \u200bbecome the largest in the \u2060central African country’s history, \u200bsurpassing the previous worst outbreak \u200bthat lasted from 2018 to 2020.<\/p>\n
It is caused by\u00a0the Bundibugyo strain\u00a0\u200bof Ebola, which has \u200bno approved vaccines or treatments.<\/p>\n
The number \u200cof \u2060people with confirmed infections has risen to 6,041, and 2,911 of them have \u200bdied, the \u200bcommunication \u2060ministry said on X.<\/p>\n
Response teams are working \u200bin six provinces affected \u200bby \u2060the outbreak, with a particular focus on Ituri, North \u2060Kivu \u200band Haut-Uele, it \u200badded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The number \u200bof confirmed\u00a0Ebola cases\u00a0in \u200cthe Democratic Republic of Congo has passed the 6,000 mark, government data showed \u200bon Monday. The epidemic has \u200bbecome the largest in the \u2060central African country’s history, \u200bsurpassing the previous worst outbreak \u200bthat lasted from 2018 to 2020. It is caused by\u00a0the Bundibugyo strain\u00a0\u200bof Ebola, which has \u200bno approved vaccines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,2362,1129],"tags":[3016,5427],"class_list":["post-21914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-africa","category-east-africa","category-featured","category-security","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo-drc","tag-ebola-cases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21915,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21914\/revisions\/21915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}