'Exponential' rise in virus cases in DR Congo capital - WHO Thursday June 03 2021 Several countries in Africa including DR Congo and Uganda- have reported a surge in Covid-19 cases in the last two weeks. PHOTO/AFP Summary As of June 2, the DRC had recorded 32,176 confirmed cases of the disease, of which 789 were fatal. Advertisement The UN's health agency on Thursday said it had detected a surge late last month in coronavirus cases in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. "An exponential rise in the spread of SARS-Cov-2 virus has been recorded in Kinshasa," the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a weekly report.