A general station reporter learned on September 6 that the Congolese National Institute of Public Health reported that up to now, the country has a cumulative total of 6522 confirmed cases of the current Ebola outbreak, including 3,134 deaths and a total of 1,516 people recovered. Currently, the contact tracing rate is 86%, and the core area of the outbreak is still the eastern province of Ituri, which accounts for 80.9% of the total number of cases in the country. The Congo declared an Ebola outbreak on May 15. WHO Director-General Tedros Tedros said on August 12 that the current outbreak in the Congo “is already the second largest Ebola outbreak on record.”

A general station reporter learned on September 6 that the Congolese National Institute of Public Health reported that up to now, the country has a cumulative total of 6522 confirmed cases of the current Ebola outbreak, including 3,134 deaths and a total of 1,516 people recovered. Currently, the contact tracing rate is 86%, and the core area of the outbreak is still the eastern province of Ituri, which accounts for 80.9% of the total number of cases in the country. The Congo declared an Ebola outbreak on May 15. WHO Director-General Tedros Tedros said on August 12 that the current outbreak in the Congo “is already the second largest Ebola outbreak on record.”