Ebola flare-up in eastern DRC may spread again after a patient escaped from a clinic
In this photo taken on April 10, 2020, Martine Milonde a Congolese community mobiliser who works with the aid group World Vision in Beni, eastern DRC, which became the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak, engages the public about coronavirus prevention.
The DRC was two days away from declaring the end of the world's second-largest Ebola epidemic when a new chain of infection was discovered on April 10, following more than seven weeks without a new case.But on Friday a 28-year-old motorbike taxi-driver who had tested positive for Ebola ran away from the centre where he was being treated in the town of Beni.
Small outbreaks are common towards the end of an epidemic, but healthworkers need to ensure the virus is contained by tracking, quarantining and vaccinating the contacts of new cases. A 15-year-old girl also tested positive for the virus on Friday, Diallo said, taking the total number of confirmed new cases since the flare-up to six.
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