The World Health Organization said Tuesday it is facing a 'serious funding gap' to battle the new outbreak of Ebola in remote corners of northern Congo amid the global COVID-19 pandemic.
An Ebola health worker is shown at a treatment center in Beni, Eastern Congo on April 16, 2019. BRAZZAVILLE, REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO -- The World Health Organization said Tuesday it is facing a "serious funding gap" to battle the new outbreak of Ebola in remote corners of northern Congo amid the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Already there have been 24 deaths since the outbreak was declared on June 1. The emergence of Ebola in Congo's northern Equateur province came just as the world's second deadliest Ebola outbreak was nearing its end. No licensed vaccine existed when Ebola killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa between 2014-2016. After Ebola cases emerged in eastern Congo in August 2018, health teams eventually were able to combat the disease with two different vaccines.
At least 2,280 people died of Ebola over the nearly two-year span of the epidemic in eastern Congo before it ended on June 25.
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