Ebola Outbreak: WHO Declares Congo’s Public Health Emergency Of International Concern - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 18, 2019
The World Health Organisation, WHO  officially declared the current Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
WHO Chief, TedrosGhebreyesus who announced the declaration in Geneva, called on countries totake notice and redouble their efforts.
The announcementfollowed the fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations EmergencyCommittee assessing the outbreak, according to a statement by the UN.
This is coming ahead ofthe first anniversary of the complex outbreak in the volatile Eastern part ofthe country in August adjudged the second worst outbreak of the disease.
Ghebreyesus said thatit was time to work together in solidarity with the DRC to end this outbreakand build a better health system for its people.
So far, there have beenmore than two thousand five hundred cases of infection, and nearly one thousandsix hundred  have died in the provincesof Ituri and North Kivu.