LATEST: One person confirmed dead from Ebola as Congo probes total of nine cases

LATEST: One person has been confirmed dead from Ebola in an outbreak in a remote corner of northern Congo as health authorities look into a total of nine suspected cases, including another death, the country's health minister said.

UPDATE 6pm: One person has been confirmed dead from Ebola in an outbreak in a remote corner of northern Congo as health authorities look into a total of nine suspected cases, including another death, the country's health minister said.

One case of the haemorrhagic fever has been confirmed out of the five tested since the outbreak emerged in Bas-Uele province on April 22, Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga said.