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The Ebola outbreak in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed 164 lives.
In mid-October, Congolese authorities said they were facing a “second wave” of the outbreak centered on Beni, a town in North Kivu near the border with Uganda.
The epicenter had earlier been focused on Mangina, a town around 20km from Beni.
The second wave of the deadly virus has been attributed to community resistance to measures already taken to tackle the disease.
the Congolese Health Ministry reports that 257 cases had been recorded in the region, of which 222 were confirmed and 35 were probable, since the start of the outbreak at the beginning of August,
The Health Ministry said Since a vaccination programme began on August 8, over 22 000 people have been inoculated, of whom around 11 000 were in Beni.