Ebola case detected in seventh DR Congo province

Case found in northwestern province of South-Ubangi bordering the Central African Republic and Congo-Brazzaville.Published On 11 Sep 202611 Sep 2026The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reached a seventh province bordering the Central African Republic and Congo-Brazzaville, according to local authorities.The acting governor of the northwestern province of South-Ubangi, Jean-Rene Galekwa Vundawe, issued a statement on Friday saying Ebola was detected following laboratory analysis of a suspected case in the province.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Ebola spreads to two new zones in DRC; 60 areas now affectedlist 2 of 4Over 6,000 Ebola cases confirmed in DRC as death toll nears 3,000list 3 of 4DRC: Ebola fears grow as children return to schoollist 4 of 4WHO chief warns Ebola response must ramp up to stem DRC outbreakend of listJean-Jacques Muyembe, head of DRC’s National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, confirmed that a man had tested positive for Ebola.Until now, the Bundibugyo virus, the rare kind of Ebola that caused the current outbreak, had been in six provinces in the country’s east and northeast. Local transmission has not y...