Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo spreads to 2 new health zones with total of 60 areas now affected

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• 01Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo spreads to 2 new health zones with total of 60 areas now affected.
• 02BUNIA, Congo — The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has spread to two new health zones in eastern Congo, with a total of 60 now affected, according to the latest government figures published on Friday.
• 03The two new zones affected are Biena and Manguredjipa in Congo’s North Kivu province, where the case fatality rate is much higher than the overall rate of 48%, due in part to delayed response efforts, according to Congo’s Ministry of Health data.
• 04The World Health Organization has said that it remains out of control and is on track to surpass the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak , the deadliest on record, which killed more than 11,000 people, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
• 05It said the outbreak has recorded 5,794 confirmed cases, including 2,786 deaths, as it is spreading at an unprecedented speed, faster than efforts to track and slow it.
• 06The outbreak is spreading under extremely difficult conditions, fueled by insecurity, displacement, a health workers’ strike and intense population movements .
• 07On Thursday, Congo began vaccinating health workers and oth.