Democratic Republic of the Congo: DR Congo reports over 7,200 Ebola cases despite overall downward trend.

Shotlist FILE: Ituri Province, DR Congo - May 2026 1. Various of camp for internally displaced people FILE: Bunia, Ituri Province, DR Congo - June 2026 2. Medical workers in protective suits 3. Health worker disinfecting makeshift medical premises 4. Funeral in progress, health workers in protective suits 5. Health worker disinfecting other health worker's boot Ituri Province, DR Congo - Aug 2026 6. Various of medical worker working in ward 7. Various of medical worker disinfecting others FILE: Bunia City, Ituri Province, DR Congo - June 2026 8. People outside Ebola treatment center 9. People washing hands FILE: Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo - July 24-25, 2026 10. Poster for Ebola prevention 11. Various of people having body temperature checked 12. Pedestrians; traffic Storyline More than 7,200 confirmed Ebola cases have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as sustained transmission continues in several provinces despite an overall downward trend of the epidemic, according to governmental data released Tuesday. A government report covering the epidemiological situation as of Sunday said 7,258 confirmed cases had been recorded in seven provinces, including 3,510 deaths and 1,726 recoveries. The overall fatality rate stood at 48.4 percent. There are still 905 patients in isolation or hospitalized. The outbreak has affected 62 health zones across seven provinces -- Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, Haut-Uele, Bas-Uele, Tshopo and Sud-Ubangi. Sustained transmission continued in Ituri, North Kivu and Haut-Uele, while sporadic cases were reported in Tshopo and Bas-Uele. The overall epidemic curve was trending downward as the peak appeared to have been reached around mid-August, said Dieudonne Mwamba Kazadi, head of the National Institute of Public Health, after a strategic coordination meeting in Kinshasa on Monday. However, he cautioned that the decline was uneven across the country, with some provinces, particularly North Kivu, still reporting increases in cases. Declared in May, the current outbreak has become the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in the DRC's history and the second largest globally, behind the 2014-2016 epidemic in West Africa. [Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland]