Residents of Congo’s Goma city ‘shaken’ as Ebola spreads
By Reuters
16 July 2019 |
3:52 pm
Residents of Goma city in the Democratic Republic of Congo were worried about the possibility of an outbreak after the first case of Ebola was detected.
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