The World Health Organization on Monday confirmed a second outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, just as an initial outbreak appeared to be ending.
At a briefing Monday in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this new outbreak is near the northwestern city of Mbandaka in the DRC's Equateur province.
In 2018, Equateur province had an Ebola outbreak that killed 33 people before it was brought under control.
Elsewhere, the eastern DRC has been battling an outbreak of the deadly virus since 2018.
Seventy-two deaths have been reported.
