The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now claimed 600 lives, figures published by the World Health Organisation showed Thursday — only three days after the figure topped 500
Updated numbers issued by the UN health agency showed there have been 1,759 confirmed cases in DR Congo since the outbreak was declared in mid-May, including 600 confirmed deaths.
Two other people have d!ed in neighbouring Uganda, where 17 patients have recovered out of 20 total confirmed cases.
The WHO’s figures for the DRC, which come from the health authorities in the vast country, show that the outbreak there has a case fatality rate of 34 percent.
A total of 285 patients in the DRC have recovered, while 304 suspected cases of the viral haemorrhagic fever are under investigation.
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