00:00The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
00:03The World Health Organization has raised the risk of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo to very
00:10high at a national level.
00:13The rare Budabungyo strain was declared an emergency of international concern by the WHO on Sunday.
00:21Mohamed Yacoub Janabi is the WHO Regional Director for Africa.
00:25It will be a big mistake to underestimate, especially with this strain, Budabungyo, which we don't have the vaccine.
00:36The WHO also noted the challenges posed by the strain's late detection, as well as widespread armed violence in eastern
00:44DRC and high mobility among the population.
00:47As of Friday, 82 cases have been confirmed in Congo, with 7 confirmed deaths, 177 suspected deaths, and almost 750
00:58suspected cases.
01:01Ituri, which is the most affected province in Congo by the Ebola outbreak, banned funeral weeks on Friday.
01:08A dispute over a victim's body that led to the burning of Ebola treatment tents showed the importance of building
01:16trust, Janabi said.
01:18Meanwhile, eastern Congo's Bukavu University Clinic is readying existing isolation tents to prepare for potential Ebola cases.
01:29Neighboring Rwanda said it would deny entry to all foreign nationals who had traveled to or transited through DRC in
01:36the last 30 days.
01:38The situation in Uganda is stable, with two cases confirmed in people who traveled from the DRC, one of them
01:46fatal.
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