{"id":63149,"date":"2026-06-06T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=63149"},"modified":"2026-06-06T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:21:00","slug":"ebola-cases-drc-452-global-health-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=63149","title":{"rendered":"Ebola Cases in DRC Rise to 452 Amid Global Health Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced Friday that confirmed cases of the Ebola virus have climbed to 452. This figure follows the confirmation of 71 new cases within the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<h2>Ebola cases DRC<\/h2>\n<p>Government data indicates that confirmed deaths related to the outbreak have reached 82.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus outlined a six-month, $518 million plan to combat the Ebola virus, expressing optimism about the potential to contain the epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that containing Ebola requires political commitment, sustainable funding, and trust-based engagement with local communities.<\/p>\n<p>The DRC declared the 17th outbreak of Ebola in the country on May 15th, prompting the WHO to issue an international health warning regarding the situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related topics:<\/strong> Ebola outbreak, DRC health, WHO, epidemic containment, public health alert, Algeria<\/p>\n<p><em>DZWatch provides English-language coverage of Algeria-focused developments for international readers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo reach 452, with 82 deaths reported. The WHO has issued a global health alert and a $518&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}