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WHO/@UNOCHA high-level meeting on the #Ebola Response in #DRC affirms support for Government-led response and @UN system-wide approach 👉 bit.ly/30yXgx8
With the #Ebola outbreak still confined to the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, #DRC, the response is at a critical juncture. WHO’s assessment of the risk of spread to neighbouring provinces and countries remains very high. bit.ly/30yXgx8
“We need political support from all parties, and community ownership, for the responders to do their work safely and without interruptions. This is the only way to stop #Ebola in #DRC from continuing to spread.”-@DrTedros
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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Today the @WHO Emergency Committee recommended that I declare the #Ebola outbreak in #DRC a public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice. Now it's time for the international community to show solidarity with the people of DRC, not to isolate them.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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A series of attacks disrupted #Ebola response activities in #DRC this week. Most operations have resumed, but unfortunately we expect that the disruptions and backlog in lab testing will result in a rise in the number of cases reported in the coming days.
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#Ebola thread: Sorry this is so late; another disease demanded my attention. And the news here is so routinely awful I barely know where to start. This outbreak is really, really not going well.
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1. #Ebola: Big thing to watch in the DRC outbreak is whether #Merck's experimental vaccine gets used. It's the one that was shown effective in a ring trial in West Africa. (And yes, made at Canada's national lab. 🇨🇦)
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