{"id":566605,"date":"2026-07-24T21:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/566605\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:46:10","slug":"nearly-3000-confirmed-infected-with-ebola-in-congo-after-data-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/566605\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 3,000 confirmed infected with Ebola in Congo after data review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784929570_257_images-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-650523\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"  \/>Medical workers dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) disinfect their equipment at an Ebola treatment centre during a ceremony to present recovery certificates to patients at the Rwambara General Reference Hospital in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, June 16, 2026. REUTERS\/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere\/File Photo <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">July 24 (Reuters)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The number of people confirmed infected with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo was heading towards 3,000 on Friday after officials reviewed data in two of the worst-hit provinces and reported more than 300 new cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medical workers dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) disinfect their equipment at an Ebola treatment centre during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-566605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}