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The Democratic Republic of Congo health minister has announced that there have been no new reported cases of Ebola.
Oly Ilunga Kalenga adds that the country has now embarked on heightened monitoring, with the aim of curbing any new outbreak. The hemorrhagic fever takes a maximum of 21 incubation days.
However, he says experimental vaccines to fight the virus have not yet arrived.
The World Health Organisation says three deaths have been blamed on the virus since it emerged May 11 in DRC’s far north. Only two have been laboratory-confirmed as Ebola.
WHO says this was the eighth outbreak in DRC since 1976. DRC has a long track record with the hemorrhagic fever.
A new wave of Ebola outbreak was recently declared in the Great Lakes Region nation after three people died of the disease.
