{"id":75021,"date":"2025-09-06T12:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75021"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:55:20","slug":"who-releases-500000-to-contain-ebola-outbreak-in-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/06\/who-releases-500000-to-contain-ebola-outbreak-in-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Releases $500,000 to Contain Ebola Outbreak in DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation (WHO), has disbursed US$500,000 from its Contingency Fund for Emergencies to support efforts to curb the latest Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<\/p>\n<p>WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced the intervention on Friday during a media briefing, confirming 28 suspected cases and 16 deaths so far, including four health workers.<\/p>\n<p>Laboratory tests conducted on September 3 at the National Institute of Biomedical Research in Kinshasa identified the outbreak as caused by the Ebola Zaire strain.<\/p>\n<p>Ghebreyesus said WHO personnel already stationed in Kasai Province have been reinforced with additional experts to boost surveillance, contact tracing, case management, and community awareness.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation has also delivered protective gear, medical tools, laboratory supplies, and a mobile testing unit to strengthen the response.<\/p>\n<p>He added that 2,000 doses of Ebola vaccine prepositioned in Kinshasa are now being deployed to immunize frontline health workers and contacts of confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the 16th Ebola outbreak in the DRC, and the government has significant experience in managing such health emergencies,\u201d Ghebreyesus said, commending Congolese authorities for swiftly declaring the outbreak and sharing the virus sequence.<\/p>\n<p>While noting the initial funding, he appealed to international partners for more resources to sustain the response and prevent further spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; The World Health Organisation (WHO), has disbursed US$500,000 from its Contingency Fund for Emergencies to support efforts to curb the latest Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced the intervention on Friday during a media briefing, confirming 28 suspected cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75023,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75021\/revisions\/75023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}