Democratic Republic of Congo reports new Ebola case linked to previous outbreak

The case involved a 46-year-old woman who was admitted to the Beni hospital in late July and died on August 15 after suffering symptoms associated with Ebola

Health workers wearing protective suits tend to to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation tent in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo (AP)

A new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern Beni city, the ministry of health has announced, saying it is linked to a previous outbreak.

Testing by a lab at the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Goma confirmed the case was the Ebola Zaire strain and was genetically linked to the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s 10th outbreak in Ituri and North Kivu provinces from 2018 to 2020 that killed more than 2,000 people, the ministry said.