WHO chief hails five Ebola recoveries as new treatment centre opens

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visits health workers at the Evangelical Medical Centre (CEM) in Bunia, DR Congo (Moses Sawasawa/AP)

Five patients have recovered from a rare type of Ebola, the head of the World Health Organisation said on Sunday during a visit to a city at the heart of an outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

“Four people will be discharged today and there was one that was discharged the day before yesterday,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during the opening of a new Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, the provincial capital of Ituri.