The number of confirmed cases has risen to 4,945 – including 2,325 deaths, surpassing the 2,299 who were killed during a previous outbreak between 2018 and 2020.
On Friday, the UN had warned “Ebola is winning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo” – and said the epidemic was now killing one person every 30 minutes.
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