# The World Health Organisation is warning that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading faster than any previous one during the first month of exposure. So far, two-thousand-273 cases have been reported, with 796 deaths in just two months. By comparison, the 2018–2019 Ebola outbreak in the country took more than ten months to reach two-thousand confirmed cases. WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says the outbreak in the DRC has become the third largest on record:
WHO warns the DRC Ebola outbreak is outpacing the response [SOUND]
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