Congo battling to halt spread of Ebola

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the grip of its worst ever Ebola outbreak, with efforts to control the virus hampered by violence from insurgent groups, including attacks on treatment centres


D.R. CONGO
Kinshasa
Detail map
500km 310 miles


Ariwara: Ebola case identified July 2, just 70km from border of South Sudan

Kasese: Three cases imported from DRC. Outbreak contained

Goma: Fears of virus spreading to city of over one million people


Health zones with confirmed Ebola cases (data as of July 7, 2019)

Ebola-affected provinces


DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
2,418 cases
1,630 deaths

ITURI PROVINCE
Bunia
Beni
Butembo
Katwa
NORTH KIVU PROVINCE

SOUTH SUDAN

Lake Albert
UGANDA
3 cases
3 deaths

Kampala

RWANDA
Kigali

TANZANIA
Lake Victoria

100km 60 miles


Sources: Associated Press, CDC, WHO 
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