Ebola outbreak in Congo surges past confirmed cases and deaths as treatment centres near capacity
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak has surged past 1,155 confirmed cases and claimed at least 304 lives, health authorities reported Friday, as treatment centres reached 95 per cent capacity and officials prepared to deploy experimental foreign drugs. The figures, published by Greek outlet *ProtoThema* and corroborated by German, Austrian and Belgian media, mark the fastest acceleration of the epidemic since it began in April 2026.
Treatment facilities in North Kivu and Ituri provinces are now operating beyond sustainable limits, with 95 per cent of beds occupied, according to *Der Standard* . The World Health Organization has warned that the true caseload is likely higher, given widespread under-reporting in remote mining communities. “The peak is still ahead,” the Austrian daily quoted a senior health official as saying.
In response, Congolese authorities have approved the emergency use of two unregistered antiviral therapies imported from the United States and Japan. The decision follows a 20 per cent week-on-week rise in fatalities, which has outpaced the previous forecast of 250 deaths by the end of June. “We are in uncharted territory,” said Dr. Jean-Pierre Ilunga, national Ebola incident manager, in remarks carried by *Handelsblatt* .
The outbreak has also triggered regional travel restrictions. On Friday, Kinshasa imposed stricter exit controls after a confirmed case was detected in France, the first European transmission linked to the Congo cluster. Passengers departing Kinshasa and Goma are now subject to mandatory temperature screening and health declarations, *Die Zeit* reported .
International aid groups have called for an immediate scaling-up of isolation units and vaccine shipments. Médecins Sans Frontières, which operates two treatment centres in Beni and Butembo, said it had only enough protective gear for another two weeks. “We are one case away from collapse,” an MSF spokesperson told *Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung* .
Public health experts cite community mistrust, porous borders and a chronic shortage of cold-chain infrastructure as the main obstacles to containment. The current strain, Ebola Zaire, has a historic case fatality rate of 67 per cent, though early treatment with monoclonal antibodies has reduced mortality in isolated settings. Health authorities are racing to pre-position experimental treatments before the expected seasonal surge in cross-border movement during the July school holidays.
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