DR Congo on Monday reported a fresh Ebola outbreak in the country's northwest, just weeks before it hoped to declare the end of another epidemic in the east.
Equateur Province was previously hit by an Ebola outbreak between May and July 2018, in which 33 people died and 21 recovered from the disease.
The Ebola epidemic in the country's volatile east has killed 2,280 people since August 2018, and officials had hoped to be able to proclaimed it over on June 25.
The newest Ebola outbreak is the 11th in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1976.
The conflict-wracked country is also fighting its own coronavirus outbreak, recording 3 195 infections - 2 896 in the capital Kinshasa - and 72 deaths, according to official figures released Monday.
