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Fresh from battling Ebola, DR Congo now faces highest Covid-19 death rate

Staff members of the Congolese Ministry of Health leave after performing a Covid-19 test at a private residence in Goma, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on March 31, 2020. PHOTO | ALEXIS HUGUET | AFP

By  PATRICK ILUNGA

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The rising death rate from Covid-19 in the Democratic Republic of Congo is worrying medics as the country is just emerging from an Ebola outbreak.

By Friday, 16 people had died out of the 148 confirmed cases, giving the country a nine per cent death rate—one of the highest in Africa.

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