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Barely three months after DR Congo authorities declared the end of the country ’s previous Ebola outbreak , the country has announced on Sunday ,a “resurgence” of Ebola in its troubled east following the death of a woman from the disease .
“We have another episode of the Ebola virus” in the Biena health zone of North Kivu province , Health Minister Eteni Longondo told state television RTNC.
“It was a farmer, the wife of a survivor of Ebola, who showed typical signs of the disease on February 1 ,” he added .
She died on February 3 , after which a sample of her blood tested positive for Ebola, the health ministry said .
The Democratic Republic of Congo on November 18 declared the end of its eleventh Ebola outbreak , where 55 deaths of 130 cases were recorded over nearly six months in the northwestern province of Equateur.
The last person declared recovered from Ebola in Equateur was on October 16 .
The widespread use of Ebola vaccinations , which were administered to more than 40 ,000 people , helped curtail the disease .
The return of Ebola in the country ’s northeast — a region plagued by violence between armed groups — comes as the vast African country is also fighting its own Covid – 19 outbreak .
A previous Ebola outbreak in the DRC’s east , which ran from August 1 2018 to June 25 2020 , was the country ’s worst -ever , with 2 ,277 deaths.
It was also the second -highest toll in the 44 -year history of the disease , surpassed only by a three -country outbreak in West Africa from 2013- 16 that killed 11 ,300 people .
Fatimah Oyesanmi
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