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A total of 750 patients are currently in isolation or hospitalization, with an overall bed occupancy rate of 94 percent, health authorities said in an update released late Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caused by the Bundibugyo Ebola virus, the outbreak, declared on May 15, is the country’s 17th Ebola outbreak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has affected 37 health zones in three provinces, namely Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Response to the outbreak continues to face multiple constraints, including community resistance to post-mortem sampling, insufficient treatment capacity, gaps in contact tracing, limited supplies, insecurity and restricted access in areas affected by armed groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Medical workers put on protective suits at an Ebola treatment center in Bunia, the capital of Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, July 6, 2026. (Xinhua)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The death toll from the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reached 600, with 1,759 confirmed cases reported, according to the country’s health authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000118719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[151,99],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000118773","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":2000118719,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/20260708e08c0e1600ca4fffba6ee16264975f89_XxjidwE000016_20260708_CBMFN0A001.jpeg","alt":"","caption":"Medical workers put on protective suits at an Ebola treatment center in Bunia, the capital of Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, July 6, 2026. (Xinhua)","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":900,"height":600,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/20260708e08c0e1600ca4fffba6ee16264975f89_XxjidwE000016_20260708_CBMFN0A001.jpeg","width":900,"height":600},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/20260708e08c0e1600ca4fffba6ee16264975f89_XxjidwE000016_20260708_CBMFN0A001.jpeg","width":900,"height":600},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/20260708e08c0e1600ca4fffba6ee16264975f89_XxjidwE000016_20260708_CBMFN0A001.jpeg","width":900,"height":600},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/20260708e08c0e1600ca4fffba6ee16264975f89_XxjidwE000016_20260708_CBMFN0A001.jpeg","width":900,"height":600},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/20260708e08c0e1600ca4fffba6ee16264975f89_XxjidwE000016_20260708_CBMFN0A001.jpeg","width":900,"height":600}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000118773","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000118773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000118773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000118774,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000118773\/revisions\/2000118774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000118719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000118773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000118773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000118773"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000118773"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000118773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}