Africa News of Thursday, 13 February 2020
Source: bbc.com
Ebola 'emergency status' extended in DR Congo
African observer missions gave the poll a clean bill of health
The World Health Organization (WHO) has extended by three months the designation of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a global health emergency.
WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said the potential remained for a much larger epidemic as long as there was a single case of the disease in an area as insecure as eastern DR Congo.
The outbreak was declared a global health emergency in July 2019 after a patient died in the provincial capital Goma - the first case in a major city.
More than 2,300 people have died since the outbreak began in 2018.
