The confirmed and registered cases have risen to 782 people, the country's health ministry wrote on X. However, the undercount is believed to be large as the latest outbreak is feared to have been going on before mid-May, when the African Union's disease control agency, the CDC, announced it.
The outbreak is caused by the so-called Bundibugyo variant of the virus, for which there is no vaccine or specific treatment.
The World Health Organization (WHO) raised the alarm on Friday that the outbreak in the northeastern parts of Congo-Kinshasa is spreading to more areas. A WHO effort, worth the equivalent of almost five billion kronor, has been launched to combat the hemorrhagic fever.
