WHO chief visits Bunia, epicentre of the Ebola outbreak

The head of the World Health Organization Saturday arrived in eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus still spreads faster than the response, despite better-organized health facilities and new aid arrivals.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to visit a treatment center and meet local authorities, health workers and affected families in Bunia.

A patient in the DRC has been confirmed to have recovered – a first since the outbreak was detected in mid-May.

The Trump administration has turned inward in response to the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda, with increasingly isolationist policies that are alarming and disappointing infectious disease experts.