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Africa Ebola outbreak passes 10,000 cases, mostly in DR Congo

Africa's latest outbreak of Ebola has passed 10,000 confirmed cases, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese health authorities said on Tuesday, with almost 5,000 fatalities.

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00:01Africa's largest outbreak of Ebola has now passed over 10,000 confirmed cases, the vast majority of them in the
00:10Democratic Republic of Congo.
00:14Since it first emerged half a century ago, Ebola has killed more than 15,000 people across Africa.
00:20Today, it's an outbreak in three regions. We didn't see that since we started to have experience of Ebola outbreaks.
00:34We were not thinking that Nigeria could be at risk country. Today, Nigeria is affected.
00:43In DRC, the contact tracing is still a challenge. Second, we can say that preparedness is still a challenge in
00:56a number of countries.
00:58And third one, we can say cross-border activities were not at the level we were expecting.
01:06According to the DRC's figures, 10,060 people have been infected and 4,887 have died since the virus was
01:16first detected in May in the vast Central African country's deadliest outbreak in its history.
01:22Cases have likewise been detected in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda, with the World Health Organization warning that Africa faces a
01:30complex task.
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