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been affected by crime are finding their voice. Hello im christine want to welcome to news africa im glad youre cheated in a year off to a bowl of 1st broke in congo the spread of the disease of his unchecked almost 2000 people have died making this the 2nd worst outbreak on record run by closed its frontier with the Democratic Republic Of Congo off to a 3rd case of the deadly virus was to takes it in the border city of gold in north
city of more than 2000000 people one year since the government of the democratic republic of the congo declared an outbreak of ebola in north kivu province and yesterday in goma a martyr working in the province of each word became the city s 2nd case of a bowl of surveillance at all points of entry and points of control in the area are being stepped up this latest case in such a dense population center underscores the very real risk of a spike in disease transmission perhaps beyond the country s border and the very urgent need for strength in global response an increased donor investment i m joined now by dr the maximum and epidemiology just doctors without borders and the sherry tay hospital here in berlin welcome to the africans so we ve heard the u.n. spokesperson calling for more controls the government briefly shut the border was that the right move. yeah thank you christine for having me on this dramatic
you were stopped at the ports. because there was a one suspected case of up asian in one of the of the boats so this was the 1st time that the population so like a very evident way you know emergency could have picked their lives here asylum when the 1st case was confirmed health officials in goma said that they were preparing for the event that more cases would be contemned what have you seen to that effect. well clearly the health posts have been there multiplying especially in border posts and at the ports of course but basically everywhere in restaurants or government buildings hold those on the street the middle of the street if we were there also 2 main ebola treatment centers being set up by visited one of this central hospital in goma but there is another one being set up on the road that connects goma and this is your bottom but one of the centers of the epidemic so far selim the border with russia has now been closed give us
a million people live to see outbreaks in the past forty years and most recently last year. yes there are a virtuous pigs for the world health organization he joins us from geneva welcome to d.w. so how serious is the current outbreak. well digger very much every few paula is very serious and has to be dealt with utmost importance evil is a very deadly disease a defect deleterious show can be as high as ninety percent and we have seen in the past what ebola can do to communities so it is of a great concern for the world health organization to received information from the government of the democratic republic of the congo about the confirmation off the presence of the virus in the northwestern part of the country so how many people have died so far how many confirmed cases are there well so far there were two