The Director-General of the World Health Organization stated Wednesday that the global risk from the Ebola outbreak remains low, even as the outbreak continues to spread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The assessment follows earlier warnings by the WHO and the Red Cross that the outbreak was accelerating.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the global risk from the Ebola outbreak 'remains low,' according to a statement carried by Insider Paper. The assessment contrasts with the WHO's own earlier warning on Wednesday afternoon, as The Zioneer reported at 17:18, that the outbreak was 'spreading faster than containment efforts' in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The organization has tracked the outbreak for over a year — as of June 13, official figures stood at 689 cases and 129 deaths, with the Red Cross warning days earlier that the peak was ahead and the epidemic could last a full year. The new statement appears to frame the risk to countries outside the affected region, not the trajectory of the outbreak itself.
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