{"id":671872,"date":"2026-11-01T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671872\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T15:50:13","slug":"ebola-outbreak-death-rate-tops-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671872\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola outbreak death rate tops 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health (MOH), by the end of the day on October 30, 2026, sixty-three (63) new confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) had been reported across three provinces: Ituri (34 cases), North Kivu (25 cases), and Haut-U\u00e9l\u00e9 (4 cases).<\/p>\n

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Among these, 23 community deaths were recorded (12 in Ituri, 8 in North Kivu, and 3 in Haut-U\u00e9l\u00e9). Additionally, 9 confirmed deaths were registered in Ebola Treatment Centers (ETCs) (7 in Ituri and 2 in North Kivu), bringing the total number of confirmed deaths reported during this period to 32.<\/p>\n

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Since the beginning of the outbreak, the DRC has recorded 10,414 confirmed cases, including 5,372 deaths\u2014a case fatality rate of 51.6%.<\/p>\n

Three provinces report case fatality rates of 50% or above: Nord-Kivu (55.5% – 2461\/1366), Ituri (51.1% – 7380\/3769) and Sud Ubangi (50% – 2\/1).<\/p>\n

The province of Ituri remains the epicenter of the outbreak, accounting for 70.9% of all reported confirmed cases and 54.0% of the new confirmed cases reported nationwide, while North Kivu accounted for 39.7% of the new cases recorded over the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n

15 patients (12 in Ituri, 2 in North Kivu, and 1 in Haut-U\u00e9l\u00e9) were declared recovered after testing negative twice for EVD.<\/p>\n

No new health zones have been affected in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Consequently, 67 out of 178 health zones (37.6%), spread across eight provinces, have been affected since the start of the outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health (MOH), by the end of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-671872","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\/671872","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=671872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}