{"id":45694,"date":"2026-09-17T07:13:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45694"},"modified":"2026-09-17T07:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:13:50","slug":"drc-ebola-outbreak-shows-encouraging-signs-of-containment","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/drc-ebola-outbreak-shows-encouraging-signs-of-containment\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC ebola outbreak shows encouraging signs of containment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported encouraging progress in efforts to contain the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), though health officials warn the outbreak remains a serious threat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Official government figures indicate that the epidemic has recorded over 7 000 confirmed cases and 3 510 deaths across seven provinces. Speaking on the response efforts, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted significant gains in key affected regions, including Ituri province and South Kivu province.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the WHO, improved surveillance and public health interventions have successfully restricted the primary transmission zones to northeastern areas of the country, while preventing further regional spread.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are now starting to see encouraging signs that we are gaining ground in the most affected parts of Ituri province,&#8221; Ghebreyesus stated. &#8220;Transmission is going down. South Kivu has reported no new cases since May. More than 1 700 people have recovered, and after four months the epidemic has been contained mostly in the northeastern DRC, with the exception of a small outbreak in Uganda that was swiftly stopped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20673,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-45694","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"WHO reports declining ebola transmission rates in eastern DRC","published_date":"2026-09-17 07:13:21","news_description":"WHO reports declining ebola transmission rates in eastern DRC","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45694","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\/45694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45695,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45694\/revisions\/45695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}