Khaberni - Congo announced on Monday the end of the 16th Ebola outbreak in the country.
Health Minister Roger Kampa in the capital Kinshasa said: "As of today, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has recorded 53 confirmed cases, 43 deaths, and 11 probable cases associated with the 16th Ebola outbreak, with an overall positive trend."
He added, "Indeed, no new confirmed cases have been recorded for 45 consecutive days."
Kampa said that 27,000 people had been vaccinated, including 4,000 who worked directly with the virus, whom the minister praised for their help in eliminating the virus. He also noted that Congo, located in central Africa, is still combating outbreaks of both cholera and monkeypox.
It is worth mentioning that the Ebola outbreak resulted in the death of more than a thousand people between 2018 and 2020 in eastern Congo.
