DRC health minister announces end of Ebola epidemic in country's northeast

Congolese health minister Eteni Longondo announced on Thursday that the Ebola virus disease epidemic in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has ended.

Since the start of the epidemic in August 2018, the country has reported a cumulative number of 3,470 infected cases, including 2,287 deaths, according to the minister.