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Via buniaactualite.com: Bunia: resistance against the Ebola response teams is coming in, like North Kivu neighbor. It sounds as if the number of confirmed and suspected cases is rising. As of yesterday's MoH update, Bunia had reported only one previous confirmed Ebola case, and six suspected. The Google translation:
The urban authorities of Bunia met on Monday, June 17, 2019 to take action against a resistance encountered at the weekend by the Ebola virus response teams in the Hoho district, where a total of 6 cases have already been reported.
The police had to shoot in the air to disperse a group of young people who wanted to attack these teams.
Among the decisions taken, the arrest of 5 of the youths who threatened the agents of the response as well as the reinforcement of the sensitization of the population to the measures of hygiene.
The same scenario was repeated on Monday, this time in another neighborhood, in Kindia, where health teams who had been burying an Ebola victim in a secure way faced one of the young people who had suspected them of burying a man.
Similar incidents are often recorded in neighboring North Kivu, armed groups as well as the civilian population, who have never believed in the existence of the disease, sometimes carry out attacks on Ebola treatment centers, killing health workers and setting fire to their facilities.
