DR Congo announces end of latest Ebola epidemic
By AFP
19 November 2020 |
7:00 am
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Health Minister, Eteni Longondo, announces the country has declared the end of the country's latest Ebola epidemic after the outbreak killed 55 people over the past five months.
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