Overview
- The outbreak now spans seven provinces with government figures reporting 7,773 confirmed cases and 3,759 deaths.
- North Kivu has seen a 73% rise in cases over three weeks while Ituri and Haut-Uele report falls of about 26% and 15%, showing mixed trends across the country.
- Response teams have expanded capacity to nearly 1,400 treatment and isolation beds across 49 centres and set up 25 labs, but WHO says hundreds of health professionals are still needed to operate those centres.
- Surveillance gaps are large: roughly one in three new infections are only found after people die in the community and children under five face a case fatality above 60%, which makes detection and care more difficult.
- WHO and partners warn that sustained funding, rapid hiring and payment of frontline workers, and decentralised care to remote villages will be required over coming months to interrupt transmission.