{"id":48334,"date":"2026-10-18T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48334"},"modified":"2026-10-18T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T11:10:00","slug":"drc-confirms-ebola-outbreak-has-spread-to-eighth-province","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/drc-confirms-ebola-outbreak-has-spread-to-eighth-province\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC confirms Ebola outbreak has spread to eighth province \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has spread to an eighth province, North Ubangi, DRC&#8217;s public \u200chealth institute said this Sunday, confirming earlier<em> Reuters<\/em> reporting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The emergence of cases in the province, which borders Central African Republic, poses a new challenge for health authorities struggling to contain the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The National \u2060Institute for Biomedical Research confirmed two cases, including one death, in North Ubangi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Reuters<\/em> reported on Thursday that two cases were confirmed in the province, citing two health officials. At the time, there was no official statement by DRC authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>North Ubangi becomes the eighth province affected by the outbreak, alongside North Kivu, Ituri, Haut-Uele, Tshopo, \u200cSud-Kivu, \u2060Bas-Uele and South Ubangi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak, the worst Ebola epidemic in DRC&#8217;s history, has already spread beyond the country&#8217;s borders, with cases recorded in Uganda and seven infections confirmed in Kenya \u2060this month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48335,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-48334","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to an eighth province","published_date":"2026-10-18 13:08:39","news_description":"Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to an eighth province","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48334","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48337,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48334\/revisions\/48337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}