{"id":35903,"date":"2026-05-31T16:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35903"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:16:58","slug":"drc-uganda-report-263-confirmed-ebola-cases-with-43-deaths-africa-cdc","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/drc-uganda-report-263-confirmed-ebola-cases-with-43-deaths-africa-cdc\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC, Uganda report 263 confirmed Ebola cases with 43 deaths: Africa CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of May 30, 263 confirmed Ebola cases have been reported in the \u200bDemocratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda, the \u200cDirector-General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention, Jean Kaseya said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1 100 suspected cases \u200bare being investigated and 43 people \u200bare confirmed to have died as a \u2060result of the rare Bundibugyo strain of \u200bEbola, Kaseya said in an FT op-ed published \u200bon Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Kesaya said national incident systems must be activated rapidly, and investments \u200bin pandemic preparedness must become permanent.<\/p>\n<p>International partners \u200bplay an essential role, but their support matters most when \u200cit \u2060aligns with strategies that are built by African institutions and African governments, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ebola outbreak &#8211; the 17th in DRC and \u200bthe third-largest \u2060since Ebola was discovered half a century ago is outpacing the global \u200bresponse.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials and aid workers say they \u200black even \u2060basic supplies such as masks after the outbreak spread was undetected for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation has \u2060declared \u200bthe outbreak in the \u200bDRC and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34548,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35903","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"More than 1 100 suspected cases \u200bare being investigated.","published_date":"","news_description":"More than 1 100 suspected cases \u200bare being investigated.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35904,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35903\/revisions\/35904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}