WHO chief says suspected Ebola deaths at 220 as epidemic ‘outpacing us’
Key takeaways
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says a delay in detecting cases means responders were now ‘playing catch-up’.
- Earlier on Monday, Uganda reported two more Ebola cases, taking its total number of confirmed cases to seven.
- In a post on social media on Sunday, the WHO chief said that as surveillance efforts have been scaled up in the DRC’s Ebola response, more than 900 suspected cases have been identified so far.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says a delay in detecting cases means responders were now ‘playing catch-up’.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo According to the WHO, more than 900 suspected cases have been identified so far in the DRC [File: Arlette Bashizi/Reuters]By AFP and APPublished On 25 May 202625 May 2026The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) says there have been 220 suspected deaths in the current Ebola outbreak and that a delay in detecting cases meant responders are now “playing catch-up”.
“We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday, adding that countries bordering the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) should take immediate action.