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July 16, 2019
Authorities in eastern DemocraticRepublic of Congo’s largest city, Goma, on Tuesday said the first patient inthe city has died.
The patient was a priest who becameinfected during a visit to the town of Butembo, one of the epicentres of theoutbreak, before taking a bus to Goma, according to Congo’s health ministry.
He was being driven from Goma to aclinic in Butembo on Monday to receive treatment when he died, North Kivuprovince’s Governor Carly Nzanzu told an Ebola response meeting.
The UN’s World Health Organization describedthe case as a “potential game-changer” and said it would reconvene a key panelto see whether the outbreak required a heightened global response.
Officials in the Democratic Republicof Congo confirmed on Sunday that the Ebola virus had spread to the Easterncity of Goma.
This is the first case in thelakeside city of 1 million people, which is more than 350 km south of where thesecond-largest Ebola outbreak on record was first detected a year ago.