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Aid workers rushed supplies Thursday to the center of Congo's outbreak of a rare type of Ebola virus while beleaguered medical personnel struggled with a lack of equipment, a distrustful population, and armed groups in a volatile region. (via The Associated Press)

READ: https://mb.com.ph/2026/05/29/aid-supplies-reach-heart-of-congos-ebola-outbreak


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00:00As you can see, we received from ECHO a donation of 100 tons of material
00:06who will arrive on several days. Today it is the first rotation.
00:10These are essential equipment to the riposte Ebola.
00:13In addition, there are medicines, there is a protective equipment for the health personnel.
00:18There is also equipment to secure the health structures.
00:23There are also equipment to secure.
00:27We have seen that in all the epidemics, there is always a community resistance
00:32because there is a lot of information for communities in a brutal way.
00:38There are a lot of people coming, there are a lot of material coming.
00:41The communities always ask what's going on.
00:44And in all the epidemics like this, there is a communication of risk
00:51and the community commitments that end up changing the perception.
00:57There are many challenges, especially in containing this outbreak.
01:02It's a very complex outbreak. One is the conflict, the security challenges.
01:08And that's why in my letter today I ask for a ceasefire.
01:12The other problem is displacement. People are displaced because of conflict.
01:23There were people who were displaced hundreds of thousands and newly displaced around 100,000,
01:29I think in the past few months. And that makes it very difficult to contain the outbreak.
01:35And the other of course is the food insecurity you see in the province and other neighboring provinces.
01:44That makes it difficult also.
01:46a question.
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