A third Ebola virus case has been confirmed in Democratic Republic of Congo this week.
According to media reports, the case was found in Butembo, a city of over one million people and the epicentre of a major outbreak of the disease, which was declared over last June after nearly two years.
According to Provincial health minister, Eugene Nzanzu Salita said meetings were being done to gather all the information on the investigations done around the case.
Congo’s health ministry announced a resurgence of the disease on 7 February after a woman contracted Ebola and died.
On Friday, 1,200 doses of Ebola vaccine and cold chain equipment arrived in Butembo, the health ministry and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a statement.
A new outbreak would be Congo’s 12th since the virus was first discovered near the Ebola river in 1976.
The virus causes severe vomiting and diarrhoea and is spread through contact with body fluids.
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