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On September 15, U.N. officials noted modest progress in containing Ebola in eastern Congo but emphasized that the outbreak remains severe and will take months to control fully. The health minister of Congo reported a reduction from about 120 daily new cases at its peak to around 80 recently, though some areas like North Kivu continue to see an increase in cases. With 7,258 confirmed cases and 3,510 deaths across seven provinces as of Tuesday, officials warned that early signs of improvement could be misleading and urged continued vigilance against the disease's spread.
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UN sees some progress in Congo Ebola fight, but too early to call peak
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U.N. officials said on Tuesday that efforts to curb Ebola in eastern Congo were beginning to show results but stressed that the epidemic remained "massive" and would take months to bring under control.
"It remains
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There are some areas of progress, but nonetheless, in other areas, we continue to see growth in cases," Julien Harneis, the U.N. special Ebola coordinator, told a Geneva press briefing.
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The outbreak is the second most lethal on record, behind one in West Africa that lasted from 2014 to 2016.
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Asked about reports that the epidemic had reached a turning point, the World Health Organization's Olivier le Polain said: "It's too early to confidently say we have passed a peak."
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He said: “It will take many, many months to get this outbreak under control fully, and it will require significant support."
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CONGO MINISTER POINTS TO 'ENCOURAGING SIGNS'
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On Saturday, Congo Health Minister Samuel Roger Kamba said there were "encouraging signs" in the fight against Ebola since "the peak reached in mid-August", and that transmission "has been gradually slowing down".
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He said daily new cases had dropped from approximately 120 "at the peak of the epidemic" to around 80, and that 10 of the 62 affected health zones had recorded no new cases for more than 22 days.
"To me, these figures are a positive sign.
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They demonstrate that the efforts deployed on the ground are yielding results and that our response strategy is beginning to bend the transmission curve," he said.
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"However, we must remain fully mobilised.
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While these results are encouraging, they must not lead us to lower our guard.
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SITUATION REMAINS 'ALARMING' IN NORTH KIVU
U.N. officials on Tuesday said they were seeing progress in parts of Ituri, which remains the most affected province, and that in some areas the outbreak is now "under control".
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But they said cases are still rising fast in North Kivu, particularly in the city of Butembo.
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"It's such a vast epidemic that it's difficult to talk about one epidemic, but there's rather many different locations,” Harneis said.
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“We know from past experience that an epidemic can show early signs of improvement and then pick up again quite quickly," Le Polain, head of epidemiology and analytics for response at the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, said.
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Aid workers say more needs to be done to curb transmission in North Kivu.
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"The situation in North Kivu, with its very complex security situation, high population density and mobility, is alarming," said Thomas Paerisch, a public health specialist recently deployed to Democratic Republic of Congo with Medecins Sans Frontieres.
North Kivu is the second most affected province, with a cumulative number of 1,269 confirmed cases, including 555 reported in the last 21 days, as of September 12.
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