The confirmed number of people infected with the virus has risen to 4,945, putting the case fatality rate at 47%, the DRC’s National Public Health Institute said in its latest report on Sunday.
The current outbreak, the DRC's 17th Ebola outbreak since the virus was first identified in the country in 1976, was officially declared on May 15 and caused by the Bundibugyo species of Ebola virus.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press briefing in Geneva last Wednesday, the current Ebola outbreak has already been the second-biggest Ebola epidemic on record, and it's moving faster than any previous Ebola outbreak. At its current pace, it's on track to eclipse the 2014-2016 West African epidemic, the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded, infecting more than 28,600 people.
