The number of deaths from Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached 149 people. This was announced by the country’s Ministry of Communications and Information Affairs on Sunday, June 14.
At the same time, the number of confirmed cases of the disease rose to 710. The death rate was determined to be 21 percent, and the level of contact tracing was 60.5 percent. TASS.
The Financial Times has already written that the current Ebola outbreak in Congo is a “dress rehearsal” for a new global pandemic, as international health funding declines rapidly and public confidence in science becomes increasingly unstable.
On June 1, Rospotrebnadzor head Anna Popova said that the epidemiological situation in Russia was stable, and the risks of importing the Ebola virus were assessed as minimal. Meanwhile, department staff in Uganda are working to understand the causes of the Ebola outbreak.
The epicenter of the current Ebola outbreak is in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.