Fast-moving Ebola outpacing response efforts: WHO chief

Tedros said he would travel to DR Congo - the epicentre of the outbreak - on Tuesday with another senior ⁠WHO official responsible for addressing ‌health ​emergencies, Chikwe Ihekweazu.

Earlier on Monday neighbouring Uganda reported two ​more Ebola cases, ‌taking its total number of confirmed cases to seven, ​and Tedros said other countries bordering DR Congo were at high risk and should take immediate action.

The WHO ​has ​declared the outbreak ​of the rare Bundibugyo strain of ‌Ebola a public health emergency of international concern.

Tedros said containing the fast-moving outbreak was complicated by the fact that DR Congo's Ituri and North Kivu provinces were highly insecure and ​there were no approved vaccines for Bundibugyo virus.