Congo suspended flights to the eastern city of Bunia and regional health ministers warned of escalating cross-border risks from Ebola as the outbreak spread across three provinces and overwhelmed contact-tracing efforts.
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo reported 91 confirmed Ebola infections, 867 suspected cases and 204 probable deaths as of Friday. Health workers had managed to trace only a fifth of the 1,745 identified contacts under monitoring — a surveillance gap officials described as “alarming.”
The worsening outbreak prompted Congo’s transport ministry to halt commercial, private and special flights to and from Bunia, one of the outbreak’s epicenters ...
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