MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 04th June, 2019) More than 2,000 Ebola virus disease cases have been registered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since last August, the country's Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
Last week, the ministry reported about 1,945 such cases.
"The situation as of Monday, June 3, 2019: a total of 2,008 cases [are registered, including] 1,914 confirmed and 94 probable ones, 1,346 have died and 539 have been cured," the ministry wrote on Twitter.
The 10th outbreak of Ebola in the DRC in forty years was declared by the national authorities on August 1.
The Ebola virus is transmitted to humans from wild animals and is estimated by the World Health Organization to have a 50-percent fatality rate. Ebola is named after the DRC's Ebola River, near which the virus was discovered by Belgian microbiologist Peter Piot and his team in 1976
