DR of Congo’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak reaches a sixth province

Health workers disinfect an ambulance at Ebola Treatment Centre at Bunia General Hospital in Ituri (Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne/AP)

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak has spread to a sixth province after a death was recorded in the previously unaffected Bas-Uele province, Africa CDC director-general Jean Kaseya said.

Mr Kaseya said the man had travelled from Isiro in Haut-Uele province to Buta, the capital of Bas-Uele, where he died.