"I am cautiously optimistic that we shall be able to bring it to an end soon," Doctor Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at Kinshasa airport. Earlier, he had tweeted that "it's far too early to declare victory in the #Ebola outbreak. On Thursday the WHO gave a total of 59 confirmed, probable and suspected Ebola cases, of which 27 people had died with one new case confirmed on June 6. Bikoro is some 100 kilometres (62.5 miles) from regional centre Mbandaka and 600 km from Kinshasa), near the border with Congo-Brazzaville. The outbreak is DR Congo's ninth since the first in 1976.

Source: The Nation Bangkok June 10, 2018 23:37 UTC