What the records say
- When
- 1 Feb 2021 – 3 May 2021
- Kind
- Epidemic
- Coordinates
- 2.88° S, 23.66° E
- Description
- disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
2021 North Kivu Ebola outbreak
Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
On 7 February 2021, the Congolese health ministry announced that a new case of Ebola near Butembo, North Kivu had been detected the previous day. The case was a 42-year-old woman who had symptoms of Ebola in Biena on 1 February 2021. A few days after, she died in a hospital in Butembo. The WHO said that more than 70 people who had contact with the woman had been tracked.
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