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Congo braces for rapid Ebola spread
The United Nations has announced that the Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has resulted in one death every 30 minutes, confirming that the epidemic is expanding at an unprecedented rate and threatening to become the deadliest in the history of the disease. Since it began spreading on May 15, the outbreak has caused over 2,128 deaths out of approximately 4,500 cases, with reported cases in six provinces within Congo, close to the borders with Uganda and South Sudan. The UN has called for urgent international action to expand and intensify the response, including increasing safe burial teams, expanding treatment center capacities, and improving contact tracing procedures, with more than $330 million allocated to combat the disease.
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