The number of Ebola deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda exceeds a thousand

The number of victims of the Ebola epidemic has increased in Uganda and the Republic of The Democratic Republic of the Congoto 1,001, according to the latest toll announced by World Health OrganizationBased on data issued by the authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

While the Democratic Republic of the Congo recorded 999 deaths in addition to 2,473 confirmed infections, the toll in neighboring Uganda stabilized at two deaths and 20 infections, after the authorities confirmed last week that the country was free of any active infections, according to the organization’s report dated July 20.

Ebola victims

over the 50 Last year, The Ebola virus has killed more than 15,000 people on the African continent.

The World Health Organization has announced the start of clinical trials on two treatments against the latest rare strain of the virus, and has also granted an emergency use license for the first molecular diagnostic test to detect it.

The first trial

Last week, the organization also announced the launch of the first trial to evaluate the safety of the ChAdOx1 vaccine, led by the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
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The person responsible for managing the response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the World Health Organization, Tierno Balde, warned during a press conference held Tuesday, in Geneva, that the epidemic "He is still one step ahead of us, and we are still at a stage where we are trying to catch up with his developments".

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