The Ebola outbreak has spread to a new province in Congo, the head of Africa CDC says

Congo's Ebola outbreak has expanded to a sixth province after a death was recorded in Bas-Uele. Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya announced on Thursday that the infected individual traveled from Isiro in Haut-Uele province to Buta, the capital of Bas-Uele, where they subsequently died. This development marks the spread of the virus into a previously unaffected region, highlighting the growth of the current outbreak as reported by the Africa CDC leadership in Kinshasa.