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First confirmed Ebola cases in DR Congo’s South Kivu province

BUKAVU, DR Congo, Aug 16, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – The eastern DR Congo province
of South Kivu has recorded its first confirmed cases of Ebola in the
country’s year-old epidemic, one of which was a fatality, the provincial
government said Friday.

“Two cases which tested positive for Ebola were confirmed overnight in
South Kivu, in Lwindi district in the Mwenga region,” it said in a statement.

More than 1,900 people have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of
Congo since August 1, 2018, when the haemorrhagic virus erupted in North Kivu
province and spread to neighbouring Ituri province.

BSS/AFP/IJ/1727 hrs