\nUnited Nations Photo \/ Flickr cc<\/p>\n
\nUnited Nations Photo \/ Flickr cc<\/p>\n
As the Ebola virus spreads to two\u00a0new health zones<\/a> in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and cases and deaths mount, G20+ leaders have pledged $2.9 billion to help fight the outbreak.<\/p>\n Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the Bundibugyo Ebola virus has infiltrated two more health zones, Bulu in Sud Ubangi and Dunghu in Haut Uele province, raising the total number of affected health zones to 63 in seven provinces.<\/p>\n Case and death numbers have reached 7,890 and 3,799, respectively, for a crude case-fatality rate (CFR) of 48.1%.\u00a0\u201cAt the national level, the number of new cases reported each day remains high,\u201d the WHO said. \u201cHowever, the situation varies across the country, with some provinces and health zones experiencing much higher levels of transmission than others.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe continuously high CFR, and especially the continuous high rate of deaths occurring in communities, highlights the seriousness of the disease and the persistent challenges in timely case detection and access to early and adequate patient care,\u201d the agency added.<\/p>\n \u2018Pledges alone will not stop Ebola\u2019<\/p>\n The financial commitments, announced at the G20+ Foreign Ministers Meeting on Accelerating Collective Action to Defeat Ebola in New York this week, consist of cash and in-kind assistance, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said in a\u00a0press release<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n The continuously high CFR, and especially the continuous high rate of deaths occurring in communities, highlights the seriousness of the disease and the persistent challenges in timely case detection and access to early and adequate patient care.<\/p>\n \u201cWe thank the US for this leadership and sense of solidarity by convening the 20 Ministerial meeting,\u201d Jean Kaseya, MD, MPH, Africa CDC director general, said in the release. \u201cBut pledges alone will not stop Ebola. We must be able to trace every single dollar\u2014from commitment to disbursement, from implementing partner to expenditure, and ultimately to the services delivered to affected communities.\u201d<\/p>\n At the meeting, the United States pledged an additional $267 million in health and humanitarian assistance for the outbreak, for a total of $887 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWith this new life-saving global health assistance, the United States will directly scale up support to combat the outbreak through new Ebola treatment units, additional safe and dignified burial teams, mass procurements of personal protective equipment, expanded surveillance, critical health commodities, and contact tracing through trusted implementers,\u201d the Department of State said in a\u00a0news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Nations Photo \/ Flickr cc As the Ebola virus spreads to two\u00a0new health zones in the Democratic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46],"class_list":["post-627516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}