Ebola cases in DR Congo break 2,000 mark

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Efforts to tackle the crisis have been hampered both by militia attacks on treatment centres, in which some staff have been killed, and by the hostility of some local people to the medical teams.

"Since the start of the epidemic, the total number of cases stands at 2,008, of which 1,914 have been confirmed [by lab test] 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.

 

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