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The Ebola epidemic in DR Congo remains a "public health emergency of international concern" for three more months, World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus says at a press conference in Geneva. IMAGES
The World Health Organization declares the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a "public health emergency of international concern," a rare designation only used for the gravest epidemics. SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization says that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo does not qualify as an international threat, despite confirmed cases also in neighbouring Uganda. SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announces that he has decided to convene an emergency committee of international experts to assess whether the "clearly unusual and concerning" outbreak of monkeypox "represents a public health emergency of international concern". SOUNDBITE
King Philip of Belgium and Queen Mathilde of Flanders meet with Congolese professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, a leading figure in the fight against Ebola, at the National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) in the capital city of Kinshasa, on the third day of their visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo. IMAGES