Ebola outbreak in DRC has peaked, say authorities, as infection rates slow

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Dr Papy Mafuta, medical director of Katwa hospital, washes his hands in chlorine after treating patients in North Kivu province, DRC. Photograph: Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/Reuters View image in fullscreen Dr Papy Mafuta, medical director of Katwa hospital, washes his hands in chlorine after treating patients in North Kivu province, DRC. Photograph: Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/Reuters Global development Ebola outbreak in DRC has peaked, say authorities, as infection rates slow Almost 3,500 people have died in outbreak and experts say more must be done to ensure Bundibugyo is under control

About this content Prosper Heri Ngorora in Goma Tue 15 Sep 2026 05.00 BST Last modified on Tue 15 Sep 2026 05.02 BST Share Prefer the Guardian on Google Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have announced that the Ebola outbreak ravaging parts of the country has reached its peak.

For the first time since the epidemic was declared in May, the numbers of people becoming infected is slowing down, according to officials.

Stressing that strict adherence to preventive measures needed to be kept in place, Samuel Roger Kamba, the Congolese health minister, said there was a decline in transmission of the Bundibugyo variant of Ebola .

“We are fighting a very dangerous virus that is killing many of our people. Today, we can say that the outbreak is under control,” he said. “At one point, we were recording about 120 cases per day; today, we’re seeing about 80 per day. So the number of new cases is decreasing every day.