Ebola deaths rise in Congo and the World Health Organization begins treatment trials

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced that the number of deaths resulting from the Ebola virus had risen to 1,405, while the total number of confirmed infections reached 3,200.

The authorities explained that the latest strain of the virus, which is a rare strain, continues to push health efforts to confront it, at a time when the World Health Organization announced the start of clinical trials on two treatments, in addition to granting an emergency use license for the first molecular diagnostic test dedicated to detecting this strain.

On May 15, the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced the outbreak of the seventeenth wave of the Ebola virus in the country.