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Al Jazeera – June 1, 2020<\/p>\n
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u00a0(DRC) have reported a fresh Ebola outbreak in the country’s northwest, just weeks before they hoped to declare the end of another Ebola epidemic in the country’s east.<\/p>\n
The appearance of the deadly disease on the other side of the vast country comes as an added blow as the DRC attempts to also battle the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n
Health Minister Eteni Longondo said on Monday “four people have already died” from Ebola in a district of the northwestern city of Mbandaka.<\/p>\n
“The National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB) has confirmed to me that samples from Mbandaka tested positive for Ebola,” Longondo told a news conference.<\/p>\n
“We will send them the vaccine and medicine very quickly,” the minister said, adding that he planned to visit the site of the outbreak at the end of the week.<\/p>\n
The capital of Equateur Province, Mbandaka is a transport hub on the Congo River with a population of more than a million.<\/p>\n
Equateur Province was previously hit by an Ebola outbreak between May and July 2018, in which 33 people died and 21 recovered from the disease.<\/p>\n
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