WHO chief says ‘deeply concerned’ by ‘scale and speed’ of DR Congo Ebola outbreak
May 19, 2026 07:34
GENEVA: The World Health Organization chief said Tuesday he was “deeply concerned” by an Ebola outbreak raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo which has spilt into Uganda, believed to have killed 131 people.
“Early on Sunday, I declared a public health emergency of international concern over an epidemic of Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the World Health Assembly in Geneva.
“I did not do this lightly... I’m deeply concerned about the scale and speed of the epidemic,” he said.
