{"id":36681,"date":"2026-06-10T10:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36681"},"modified":"2026-06-10T10:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:34:38","slug":"who-highlights-ebola-response-gains","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/who-highlights-ebola-response-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO highlights Ebola response gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The World Health Organisation (WHO) says community trust and expanded laboratory testing are proving critical in the fight against the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>More than 550 confirmed cases and over 100 deaths have been recorded since the outbreak began, while\u00a0neighbouring\u00a0Uganda is also reporting infections.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>WHO officials say efforts are intensifying to identify cases early, trace contacts and strengthen cross-border collaboration to contain the virus.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>WHO says the Ebola outbreak remains largely concentrated in\u00a0Ituri\u00a0Province in eastern DRC, where the vast majority of cases have been recorded.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>WHO&#8217;s Health Emergency Alert and Response Operations Director, Dr\u00a0Abdirahman\u00a0Mahamud, says increased testing capacity is helping health authorities detect more cases.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34548,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-36681","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":"Ebola outbreak in the eastern DRC"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36681","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\/36681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36682,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36681\/revisions\/36682"}],"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=36681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}