GOMA: One Ebola case has been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo, five months after the latest epidemic of the disease in the country was declared over, the government said on Friday (Saturday in Manila). "The case concerns a three-year-old boy who was hospitalized and died on October 6," the health ministry said in a statement, adding that the case was in Beni, in North Kivu province. A sample taken from the child was sent to Goma, the provincial capital, and was found to be positive.

Source: Manila Times October 09, 2021 16:17 UTC