What DRC did to beat Ebola can teach us about fighting corona

A man receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse outside the Afia Himbi Health Center on July 15, 2019 in Goma, DR Congo. PHOTO | AFP

As most people continue to run scare over what the World Health Organisation has now declared to be a coronavirus pandemic, there was “good” news about an even more deadly virus from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This week the patient being treated for Ebola in DRC was discharged, and there have been no new cases for over two weeks.