WE ARE STILL AT WAR WITH EBOLA –
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION (WHO)
World Health Organization chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has cautioned against declaring victory too early in Congo’s Ebola epidemic, despite encouraging signs that it may be brought under control.
The WHO chief told Journalists on a visit to Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa that, “The outbreak is stabilising, but still the outbreak is not over.
“We are still at war, and we need to continue to strengthen our surveillance and be very vigilant,”.
WHO officials on Friday expressed cautious optimism that the epidemic was stabilising partly due to swift deployment of vaccines.
But a day earlier, Congo’s health ministry reported its first confirmed case of Ebola in over a week, in the rural community of Iboko.
Ghebreyesus said 2,200 people had been vaccinated, and that case management and tracing contacts of victims had gone well.
He said: “It’s not over until it is over. Even if one case crosses into Congo (Republic) and gets to an urban area, that could trigger another epidemic.”
SOURCE – THE NATION