"Global health" It acknowledges its delay in responding to the Ebola outbreak
The World Health Organization has confirmed that the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa has reached a large scale, noting that response efforts are currently beginning to gradually contain the situation.
The Director-General of the Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told reporters in Geneva: “We are still behind.”
He warned, saying: “Only about 45% of contacts have been traced, and to control the outbreak we need to raise this percentage to more than 90%.”
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Ebola outbreak
On May 15, the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced the start of the outbreak of the seventeenth wave of the Ebola virus in the country, which has a population of more than 100 million people, while the World Health Organization issued an international health alert.
344 confirmed cases of infection, including 60 deaths, were recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 24 health regions distributed over three regions: Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, according to Tedros.
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