REPUBLIC OF CONGO CONFIRMS ITS THIRD EBOLA CASE

Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed a third ebola case this week in North Kivu province, provincial health minister eugene Nzanzu Salita said on Friday. The case was found in butembo, a city of over 1 million people and the epicentre of a major outbreak of the disease that was declared over last June after nearly two years. “We are in a meeting to gather all the information on the investigations done around this case,” said Salita. Congo’s health ministry announced a resurgence of the disease on Feb. 7, after a woman contracted ebola and died. She was married to a survivor of the previous outbreak. On Friday, 1,200 doses of ebola vaccine and cold chain equipment arrived in butembo, the health ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement.