Mohale FM The head of the World Health Organization has expressed deep concern on Tuesday at the speed and scale of the Ebola outbreak, as the number of cases rises.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there have been at least 500 suspected cases and 130 suspected deaths from Ebola since the new outbreak began.
According to a daily bulletin published by health authorities, later figures put the toll at 131 fatalities associated with the outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. There have been 516 suspected cases and 33 confirmed cases in Congo, and two confirmed cases in neighbouring Uganda.
Tedros told members of the World Health Assembly meeting this week in Geneva that the “numbers will change as field operations are scaling up, including strengthening surveillance, contact tracing and laboratory testing.”
