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The figures showed that 192 patients had recovered, while 609 others were receiving treatment or under care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outbreak remains concentrated in the eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, where surveillance, medical care and response operations are continuing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government said response capacity is being strengthened through the deployment of vehicles and ambulances, the supply of medicines and personal protective equipment, and intensified communication and community mobilization efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DRC declared the outbreak in mid-May. Health authorities and international partners have repeatedly warned that insecurity, population movement, pressure on health facilities and incomplete contact tracing continue to complicate the response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The outbreak remains concentrated in the eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, where surveillance, medical care and response operations are continuing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reported 1,406 confirmed Ebola cases, including 438 deaths, the government said in an update on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000117842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[151,99],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000117841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-editors-choice","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000117842,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/dFQROr7oWzulq5Fa7HhgU835uSVB0mYsbvXek1veVCLjEEUG4sveSqaM5igBAThFKif-1.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1280,"height":720,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/dFQROr7oWzulq5Fa7HhgU835uSVB0mYsbvXek1veVCLjEEUG4sveSqaM5igBAThFKif-1.jpg","width":1280,"height":720},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/dFQROr7oWzulq5Fa7HhgU835uSVB0mYsbvXek1veVCLjEEUG4sveSqaM5igBAThFKif-1.jpg","width":1280,"height":720},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/dFQROr7oWzulq5Fa7HhgU835uSVB0mYsbvXek1veVCLjEEUG4sveSqaM5igBAThFKif-1.jpg","width":1280,"height":720},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/dFQROr7oWzulq5Fa7HhgU835uSVB0mYsbvXek1veVCLjEEUG4sveSqaM5igBAThFKif-1.jpg","width":1280,"height":720},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/dFQROr7oWzulq5Fa7HhgU835uSVB0mYsbvXek1veVCLjEEUG4sveSqaM5igBAThFKif-1.jpg","width":1280,"height":720}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000117841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000117841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000117841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000117843,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000117841\/revisions\/2000117843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000117842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000117841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000117841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000117841"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000117841"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000117841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}