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REUTERS\/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere\"><\/div><figcaption>WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrives at Bunia airport, the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak, in eastern DRC on May 30, 2026 [Gradel Muyisa Mumbere\/Reuters]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"article-info m--t-20 m--desktop-b-30 m--b-mobile-20\">\n<div class=\"byline byline--single-avatar\">\n<div class=\"avatars-container\"><a class=\"avatar\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"\/author\/faisal-ali\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/profile-faisal-ali-1779118668.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;quality=80\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline-content\">\n<div class=\"contributors-list contributors-list--byline\"><span class=\"contributors-list__by-prefix\">By <\/span><a href=\"\/author\/faisal-ali\">Faisal Ali<\/a> and <!-- -->Reuters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<div class=\"date-simple\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 30 May 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">30 May 2026<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p>The head of the United Nations health agency is <a href=\"\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/5\/30\/who-chief-visits-bunia-epicentre-of-the-ebola-outbreak\">visiting<\/a> the epicentre of a deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), urging local communities to lead the fight against a disease whose confirmed cases have nearly doubled in two days.<\/p>\n<p>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general, arrived in Bunia, the capital of Ituri province, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"more-on__list\">\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 1 of 3<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" href=\"\/news\/2026\/5\/29\/kenyan-court-suspends-us-ebola-quarantine-facility-plan\">Kenyan court suspends US Ebola quarantine facility plan<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 2 of 3<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" href=\"\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/5\/29\/ebola-treatment-centre-rebuilt-after-being-torched-by-protesters-in-drc\">Ebola treatment centre rebuilt after being torched by protesters in DRC<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 3 of 3<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" href=\"\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/5\/30\/who-chief-visits-bunia-epicentre-of-the-ebola-outbreak\">WHO chief visits Bunia, epicentre of the Ebola outbreak<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>\u201cThe international community is involved under the leadership of the government of DRC, and at the same time, community ownership is important; that\u2019s why we\u2019re here to discuss with the community to see how the response is you know, running, and if there are challenges, to help,\u201d Tedros told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe communities understand the problems better, and they know the solution, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;position:relative;min-width:0px;max-width:770px\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Congolese authorities say the number of confirmed cases in DRC reached 225 on Friday, <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/5\/25\/who-chief-says-suspected-ebola-deaths-at-220-as-epidemic-outpacing-us\">nearly double the figure of 121 reported<\/a> two days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, a rare and severe form of <a href=\"\/tag\/ebola\/\">Ebola<\/a> for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO has declared the outbreak a global health emergency, its highest level of alarm, and the medical NGO Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, calls it one of the fastest-spreading Ebola outbreaks ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have also recorded 1,028 suspected cases and more than 220 suspected deaths in DRC, while the disease has crossed into neighbouring Uganda, which has recorded nine confirmed cases and one death.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads\">\n<div class=\"ads\"><span class=\"ads__title\"> Advertisement <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ebola was first identified in this part of central Africa in 1976; this is the DRC\u2019s 17th outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Bundibugyo is one of three virus types behind most major epidemics; the deadliest, the Zaire Ebola virus, drove the 2014\u20132016 West Africa outbreak, the largest on record, with more than 28,000 cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody knows the true scale and severity of this outbreak,\u201d MSF said, warning that the response has not kept pace.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO has cautioned that the death rate could reach 30 to 50 percent \u2013 the range seen in the previous two Bundibugyo outbreaks \u2013 though the rate among confirmed cases so far has been lower.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;position:relative;min-width:0px;max-width:770px\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Alain Uaykani, reporting from the eastern Congolese city of Goma on Saturday, said DRC\u2019s health ministry had expanded testing, contact tracing and monitoring, uncovering infections that might otherwise go unrecorded.<\/p>\n<h3>Help has begun to arrive<\/h3>\n<p>As the virus spreads rapidly, the European Union has sent medical supplies to Ituri, and the United States has pledged more than $112m.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the African Union\u2019s health body, says global funding for the response has more than halved, from $498m to $219m.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak recorded its first confirmed recovery this week, and WHO is working with both DRC and Uganda to assess experimental drugs and a candidate vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Tedros, who met DRC\u2019s Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka in Kinshasa before flying to Bunia, said he was confident the country, which has battled Ebola repeatedly, could again bring it under control.<\/p>\n<p>Still, containing the disease is made harder by years of conflict in eastern DRC. Health teams in Ituri have come under attack from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group linked to ISIL (ISIS), and from local ethnic militias. The virus has also reached North Kivu and South Kivu provinces, where the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group controls major cities.<\/p>\n<p>Anger over strict rules for handling victims\u2019 bodies, which clash with local burial customs, has fuelled at least three attacks on health centres.<\/p>\n<p>Regional countries are meanwhile on alert. Both Uganda and Rwanda have shut their borders with DRC, while Washington has barred most travellers who have recently visited DRC, Uganda or South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO advises against such steps, and Tedros has dismissed border closures as ineffective, arguing they discourage countries from reporting outbreaks openly.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;position:relative;min-width:0px;max-width:770px\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Health ministers from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an eight-nation East African bloc, met this week and agreed to redirect about $7m towards prevention across the region.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads\">\n<div class=\"ads\"><span class=\"ads__title\"> Advertisement <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A US plan to open an Ebola quarantine centre in Kenya for <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/5\/29\/kenyan-court-suspends-us-ebola-quarantine-facility-plan\">exposed<\/a> Americans was suspended by a Kenyan court this week after a rights group, the Katiba Institute, challenged it.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement that made no mention of the court ruling, the country\u2019s health minister, Aden Duale, later said the project would proceed. It isn\u2019t clear where things currently stand.<\/p>\n<p>Africa CDC has also objected, warning the facility would strain Kenya\u2019s health system. The US says it expects to resolve the dispute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ListenListen (5 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrives at Bunia airport, the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak, in eastern DRC on May 30, 2026 [Gradel Muyisa Mumbere\/Reuters] By Faisal Ali and Reuters Published On 30 May 202630 May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Confirmed Ebola cases nearly double in days as WHO chief visits DR Congo - 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