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A Doctors Without Borders medic at the Elikya Ebola treatment centre is sprayed with chemicals after leaving the patients rooms in Bunia, in DR Congo, on 5 June.
The Democratic Republic of Congo says 71 new Ebola cases have been confirmed in a 24-hour period and is warning of rapid community transmission of the deadly disease.
The new data brings the total number of confirmed cases to 452 since the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola was announced on 15 May, the health ministry said in a daily situation report on Friday. There have been 82 confirmed deaths.
The cases remain heavily concentrated in Ituri province in northeast Congo, a remote part of the country with poor health infrastructure and widespread insecurity due to fighting by armed groups.
