A second death linked to the Ebola virus has been confirmed in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), local media reported.
An 11-year-old girl, who had been admitted to the Beni General Reference Hospital several days ago.
No new case had been reported for weeks, until last Friday when a 26-year-old man died of Ebola in the city of Beni.
“So the DRC government will not be able to declare an end to the Ebola outbreak on Monday as hoped,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO chief, said last week.
The recent Ebola outbreak in DR Congo declared in August 2018 left more than 2,200 people dead, with 3,310 cases reported.
Ebola is a tropical fever, which first appeared in 1976 in Sudan and the DRC.
It can reportedly spread through contact with body fluids, infected people or of those who have succumbed to the virus.
Ebola caused global alarm in 2014 when the world’s worst outbreak began in West Africa, killing more than 11,300 people and infecting an estimated 28,600 as it swept through Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
