On February 7, 2021, the Ministry of Health (MOH) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced that a case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) had been confirmed in Biena Health Zone, North Kivu Province. Reported number of deaths and percentage of fatal cases: 6 (50%).This outbreak, the 13 th EVD outbreak in DRC, was declared officially over on December 16, 2021, 42 days after the last confirmed patient was released from treatment. Sequencing data showed a link to the 2018-2020 outbreak in the same region, suggesting this outbreak was likely caused by a persistent infection in an EVD survivor. Subsequent cases were confirmed in the same health zone and three probable cases were retrospectively identified from September 2021. On October 8, the Ministry of Health in DRC announced an outbreak of EVD in Beni Health Zone, North Kivu Province. Reported number of deaths and percentage of fatal cases: 9 (82%).The outbreak was declared over on July 4, 2022. The following four cases were epidemiologically linked, or had known contact with an EVD patient, and were reported from Mbandaka and Wangata health zones. Sequencing data from the first confirmed case in this outbreak indicated that this was a new spillover event from an animal to a person and was not directly linked to previous outbreaks. This was the 14 th EVD outbreak in DRC and marked the third in a series of outbreaks in Equateur province since 2018. On April 23, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared an outbreak of EVD in Mbandaka city, Equateur Province. Reported number of deaths and percentage of fatal cases: 5 (100%). The outbreak was declared over on September 27, 2022, with only one confirmed case. A specimen was collected and tested positive at the Beni Referral Hospital laboratory and later confirmed at the DRC’s national laboratory in Goma – the Institut National de la Recherche Biomédicale (INRB). This announcement came after a fatal case was discovered in Beni Health Zone, one of the epicenters of DRC’s 10 th outbreak in 2018-2020. On August 22, 2022, the Ministry of Health announced an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in North Kivu Province.
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