DR Congo starts Ebola vaccinations in east of country

DRC Ebola

Nurses working with the World Health Organisation administer Ebola vaccine to a local doctor in Mbandaka, DR Congo, on May 21, 2018. PHOTO | AFP

Vaccination against the deadly Ebola disease began on Wednesday in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Beni, the WHO said, five days after reports of a new case.

The fresh case was reported in North Kivu, the same province where the vaccination programme began.