Ebola outbreak in east Congo now world's second biggest

Health workers in DR Congo move a patient to a hospital after he was cleared of Ebola on November 4, 2018. PHOTO | AFP

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is now the second biggest in history, with 426 confirmed and probable cases, the health ministry said late on Thursday.

The epidemic in a volatile part of Democratic Republic of Congo is now only surpassed by the 2013-2016 outbreak in West Africa, where more than 28,000 cases where confirmed, and is bigger than an outbreak in 2000 in Uganda involving 425 cases.