The head of the World Health Organization visited Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Wednesday, warning that the Ebola outbreak in the east of the country was "spreading faster than our scale-up of the response."
The 17th Ebola outbreak in DRC's history is already the fastest-spreading and the second-most deadly outbreak on record.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has now visited twice this summer since the public health emergency, centered in the eastern Ituri province, was first declared in mid-March,.
His visit coincided with a health scare in the Maluku municipality in northeastern Kinshasa. A passenger on a crowded ship died with Ebola-like symptoms and authorities were rushing to isolate it and conduct checks.
The presence of Ebola was not yet confirmed in the latest scare involving a timber-transporting boatImage: Wendy Bashi/DW
