Fresh Ebola Virus In Some Part Of Africa

A new outbreak of Ebola virus has resurface in the west part of the Democratic Republic of Congo which has killed four people, according to Health Minister Eteni Longondo.

The infections were identified in the western city of Mbandaka in Equateur province, Longondo said in a text message Monday. 

“There are already four deaths and four suspected cases” who are still alive, he said.

Equateur province last experienced the virus outbreak in 2018, with 54 cases and 33 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.

Congo is still struggling to extinct the second-largest Ebola epidemic in history in the eastern part of the country, where over 2,260 people have died despite the use of two new vaccines.

The country is also fighting a rising number of cases of Covid-19, with 3,195 known infections and 72 deaths through May 31, according to the agency handling the coronavirus response. No Covid-19 cases have been found in Equateur province so far.