Congo’s Health Ministry confirmed the Ebola case July 13 in the city of Goma, which sits right on the Congo-Rwandan border. More than 1 million people live in Goma, and tens of thousands of people cross the border daily.
“Because of the speed with which the patient was identified and isolated … the risk of it spreading in the rest of the city of Goma is small,” the ministry said in a statement cited by The Post.
However, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said he would reconvene an expert panel to decide if the outbreak now constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
As of July 12, the WHO has reported 2,477 confirmed and probable Ebola cases linked to the outbreak, including 1,655 deaths.
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