The World Health Organization has said that the true scale of the outbreak could be two to four times larger than official figures indicate.
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22/07/2026 - 21:53 GMT+2
More than 1,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Africa's top health body said.
Speaking at a health summit in Ghana on Wednesday, Dr. Jean Kaseya, director-general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said 1,031 deaths have been confirmed.
“These are people dying. They are dying because we don’t have vaccines, we don’t have medicine, we don’t have funding,” he added.
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