More than 1,000 people have now been infected with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The death toll stood at 639 in the African nation yesterday, as the outbreak of the deadly virus enters its eight month.
Health workers are still struggling to contain the infection, which has killed almost two thirds of people who have caught it.
In the past month five treatment centres have been violently attacked, the country’s health ministry said, and people still don’t trust the medics.
Last week, authorities confirmed the virus – which causes severe fevers and uncontrollable bleeding – had spread to the city of Bunia and killed at least one.
Around a million people live in the city, which is 125miles (201km) north of Beni, where most of the outbreak has been centered.
The government said it has managed to ‘limit the geographical spread’ of the disease, but authorities are under no illusions about stamping it out.
‘I think all of us in the field are aware that we’re very far from being near the end of this outbreak,’ said Tariq Riebl, a member of the International Rescue Committee.
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