UPGRADED ALERT:
The risk inside DR Congo is now considered ‘very high,’ while neighboring countries face a ‘high’ threat as the outbreak continues, the WHO said
Bloomberg
Ebola is spreading faster than responders can track it in eastern Congo, where health workers managed to follow up with barely one in five identified contacts in a single day.Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) reported 83 confirmed infections, 746 suspected cases and 1,603 identified contacts as of Thursday, but health workers were able to follow up on only 342 contacts that day — about 21 percent of the total under monitoring — data released by the DR Congo Ministry of Public Health on Friday showed.The figures suggest the response is falling behind the outbreak itself, even as governments and international agencies ramp up emergency measures after the WHO declared the epidemic a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday last week.
Medical personnel wear protective gear as they prepare an isolation room for a person placed under observation in Goma on Thursday.
