Kinshasa:The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced on Friday that the death toll from the Ebola outbreak had risen to 5,198, out of 10,668 confirmed cases, representing a case fatality rate of 48.7 percent.
According to Wam, the ministry stated on its website that, as of 3rd November, the country had recorded 10,668 confirmed Ebola cases alongside 5,198 deaths.
Jean Kaseya, Director-General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), had earlier warned that the virus continues to pose a threat to neighboring countries as transmission persists across the Democratic Republic of the Congo.