{"id":833480,"date":"2026-07-29T10:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833480\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:54:12","slug":"congo-number-of-confirmed-ebola-cases-rises-to-3360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833480\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo: Number of Confirmed Ebola Cases Rises to 3,360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of confirmed Ebola cases in \u2060the Democratic Republic \u2060of \u2060Congo has increased to 3,360, including 1,487 deaths, according to \u2060government \u2060data published late Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, authorities in Uganda declared the East Africa nation free of Ebola on Tuesday following the discharge of the country&#8217;s last patient in mid-June.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda has maintained since the outset that its cases were linked to the larger outbreak in eastern Congo\u2019s remote province of Ituri, which borders Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>The first cases in Uganda were Congolese who crossed the border to seek treatment for an unknown illness before it was known they had Ebola, health authorities have said.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of confirmed Ebola cases in \u2060the Democratic Republic \u2060of \u2060Congo has increased to 3,360, including 1,487&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84],"class_list":["post-833480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}