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New case of Ebola in DR Congo two days before WHO set to announce end to outbreak
A new case of Ebola was reported in eastern DR Congo on Friday, just three days before a deadline that would have marked the official end to the long epidemic, the UN said.
"Unfortunately, this means the government of #DRC will not be able to declare an end to the #Ebola outbreak on Monday, as hoped," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), said on Twitter.
The country's health ministry said the case - the first recorded in 52 days - was a 26-year-old man.
"Our teams, in collaboration with the WHO, are already on the ground to carry out further investigations and implement health measures," the ministry's Ebola task force said in a statement.
https://news.yahoo.com/case-ebola-two-days-set-172453049.html