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Health authorities in Africa have sounded the alarm over the advance of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. teleSUR
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00:00In other topics, health authorities in Africa have sounded the alarm over the advance of an Ebola outbreak in the
00:06Democratic Republic of the Congo.
00:07The latest report puts the number of suspected cases at 395 and the number of fatalities at 106, which mobilizes
00:15the response teams in the field.
00:17The African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the outbreak continues to spread, which poses a challenge to
00:24local health systems.
00:25The Congolese Ministry of Health, in coordination with the World Health Organization, has intensified surveillance and contact tracing to cut
00:32the chain of transmission of the virus.
00:34Authorities have affirmed that the priority is to avoid the current outbreak reaching the dimensions of past epidemics.
00:46It is an epidemic that is going to spread very quickly, especially because it has broken out in a very
00:51populous province, with a high population density, and a lot of population movement, and then, of course, there is the
00:57complication that there are many armed groups in this province, that is what will make managing this epidemic very, very
01:03complicated.
01:03I have conference and I will press it, I will press it on the next slide that I have been
01:03trying to do with the COVID-19 pandemic.
01:04Please check out!
01:04Thanks again!
01:04There are many private conflicts, as well, some of the people in this region was not able to support us
01:04to try to escape the races from the other groups that are not just..?
01:04Thank you so much.
01:05Thank you so much, I think we've got some high in our 201 years to get in our 201 years
01:05to take.
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