Kenya confirms first Ebola case as man dies in Nairobi after DRC return
The patient, who had lived in the DRC for seven years, had been ill for about a month before travelling by road from the DRC to Uganda’s capital, Kampala, and then flying to Nairobi on Saturday, Aden Duale, Kenya’s health secretary told a news conference on Tuesday.
The World Health Organization has warned that the epidemic is “far from over” and on track to surpass the regional 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, which killed more than 11,000 people, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The outbreak has claimed more than 4,000 lives, according to figures released by the government on Friday, and confirmed cases have reached 8,300 across seven provinces, making it the worst Ebola epidemic in the country’s history.
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