# The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organisation have called for an urgent scale-up of the community-led Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There have been three-thousand-973 confirmed cases and one-thousand-801 deaths recorded in the DRC. More than two-thirds of Ebola deaths are happening in the community rather than in treatment centres. Africa CDC director general, doctor Jean Kaseya, says containing and ultimately stopping this outbreak will come from communities:
Africa CDC and WHO call for urgent, community-led action to contain Ebola outbreak in DRC [SOUND]
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