00:01More than 1,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Africa's top
00:08health buddy, says.
00:10According to the latest updates from the DRC's Ministry of Health, some 2,473 Ebola cases have been recorded as
00:18of Monday,
00:19with at least 737 patients in isolation or receiving hospital treatment.
00:24Today, confirmed deaths, today we reached 1,031. These are people dying. They are dying because we don't have vaccine,
00:36we don't have medicine, we don't have funding.
00:39Last week, the University of Oxford's vaccine group launched the world's first human clinical trial of a vaccine against the
00:47Bundibugio virus,
00:49which has caused the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.
00:53The outbreak has killed more people at a faster rate than any previous Ebola outbreak, including the 2013-2016 epidemic,
01:01the deadliest on record, which claimed more than 11,000 lives from at least 28,000 cases.
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