“Since the start of the epidemic, the total number of cases stands at 2 008, of which 1 914 have been confirmed while 94 are probable,” it said in an update.The ministry said it was important to retain the overall perspective, despite the breaching of the symbolic threshold of 2 000 cases.There have been fewer attacks on Ebola teams by armed groups, which means health workers have “recovered some of the lost time to contain the spread of the epidemic,” it said.
The epidemic was first declared in North Kivu province on 1 August and then spread to neighbouring Ituri, although there have not been any cases in neighbouring countries.on treatment centres, in which some staff have been killed, and by the hostility of some local people to the medical teams. The outbreak is the 10th in the DRC since the disease was identified in 1976. It is the worst on record after an epidemic that struck three African countries between 2014-2016; leaving more than 11 300 people dead.