DRC's new Ebola outbreak in the northwest comes as an added blow as the central African country attempts to also battle the coronavirus pandemic
Activists walk along the street during a coronavirus awareness campaign in Kinshasa on May 29, 2020.
Health Minister Eteni Longondo said that "four people have already died" from Ebola in a district of the northwestern city of Mbandaka. "We will send them the vaccine and medicine very quickly," he said, adding that he planned to visit the site of the outbreak at the end of the week. 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.
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