United Kingdom has committed up to 20 million pounds ($26.87 million) in new aid funding to support efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the UK Foreign Office said on Thursday.
As of Wednesday, there were 600 suspected cases and 139 suspected deaths in Congo. Fifty-one cases have been confirmed by laboratory testing in Congo, and two cases have also been confirmed in neighbouring Uganda. The outbreak is expected to continue to grow, the World Health Organization has said.
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- The funding will support the World Health Organization, United Nations agencies, and non-governmental organizations in increasing surveillance efforts, protecting frontline healthcare workers, and strengthening infection prevention and control measures, the UK Foreign Office said.
- The UK Health Security Agency is also reviewing travel routes used by passengers entering the UK from affected countries and has launched a program to monitor and protect the health of people travelling from the UK to outbreak-hit areas for work.
