Via 7sur7.cd: DRC - Ebola: No new case confirmed in Beni in three weeks. The Google translation:
According to Dr. Maza, interim coordinator of the Ebola response in the city of Beni, North Kivu, newly confirmed cases of Ebola in this part of the country are becoming increasingly rare.
It was before the local press on Sunday, February 17, that the interim coordinator of the Ebola response delivered this information.
"The Beni health zone that is in Beni's under-coordination is on the twentieth day without confirmed cases of the Ebola virus disease," he said.
In addition, Dr. Maza invited local people to take ownership of community-based surveillance to eradicate the tenth Ebola epidemic that has rocked the Democratic Republic of Congo since last August.
Further clarification that surveillance is to bring the positive cases of Ebola to health facilities for medical care.
As of Sunday, February 17, 2019, a total of 534 people died as a result of the outbreak and 294 were cured.
