Published on: 2026-05-20
Source: People’s Republic of China in the Russian language –
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Geneva, May 20 /Sin Hua/ — The risk of Ebola virus disease spread is “high at the national and regional levels, but low at the global level.” The outbreak does not meet the criteria for a public health emergency of international concern, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday.
Speaking at a press conference, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the WHO Emergency Committee met on Tuesday and agreed with its earlier assessment that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda is considered a public health emergency of international concern but does not meet the criteria for a pandemic-level emergency.
At the moment, 51 cases of infection have been confirmed in the Ituri Province and North Kivu in the north of the DRC, said T. A. Gebreyesus, adding that the scale of the epidemic in the DRC is much larger.
Uganda also informed WHO about two confirmed cases of the disease in the capital Kampala, including one fatal case.
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