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New Ebola outbreak declared in northwest DR Congo

A man receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse outside the Afia Himbi Health Center on July 15, 2019 in Goma, DR Congo. PHOTO | AFP

By  Xinhua

News agency

Kinshasa,

The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday declared an eleventh outbreak of the Ebola virus disease.

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