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April 30, 2019
Democratic Republic of Congo registered a one-day record of27 new confirmed Ebola cases, raising last week’s number of cases to 126, thebiggest since the current outbreak was declared last August.
The health ministry said that the previous record was 110confirmed cases a couple of weeks ago.
The outbreak in the country’s eastern regions is nowspreading at its fastest rate, due largely to a spate of attacks by militiamenand others distrustful of the international response.
In the past two months, five Ebola centers have beenattacked and a senior World Health Organization official was killed bymilitiamen 10 days ago.The assailants have mostly been unidentified butare believed to comprise both local militiamen and community members who opposethe response efforts.