A UN Ebola affairs official said on the 21st that as the Ebola outbreak in the Congo continues to spread, the UN urgently calls on the international community to provide immediate assistance because the current response funds are seriously insufficient. According to the latest data released by the Congolese health department on the 21st, 5,290 people have been infected and 2,516 have died since the outbreak of the epidemic on May 15. Years of armed conflict, insufficient medical resources, and attacks on health-care workers and medical facilities are making it more difficult to prevent and control the epidemic.

A UN Ebola affairs official said on the 21st that as the Ebola outbreak in the Congo continues to spread, the UN urgently calls on the international community to provide immediate assistance because the current response funds are seriously insufficient. According to the latest data released by the Congolese health department on the 21st, 5,290 people have been infected and 2,516 have died since the outbreak of the epidemic on May 15. Years of armed conflict, insufficient medical resources, and attacks on health-care workers and medical facilities are making it more difficult to prevent and control the epidemic.