The death toll from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has surpassed 2,300, Reuters reported on the 16th local time.

This exceeds the number of deaths during the 2018–2020 Ebola outbreak, making it the deadliest Ebola epidemic in the history of the DRC.

According to the DRC Public Health Research Institute, the cumulative number of confirmed Ebola cases has increased to 4,945.

Among them, 101 cases were newly confirmed over the past 24 hours.

Since the official declaration of the Ebola outbreak in the DRC on May 15, the spread has continued at a rapid pace up to the present.

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