Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. We now have more than six million cases of COVID-19 across the world and have lost more than 370,000 people to the virus.
As we work with governments across the world to suppress the virus and accelerate science around diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines, we also continue to respond to other health emergencies and new disease outbreaks.
The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced today that a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease has been detected near the city of Mbandaka in Équateur province.
The announcement follows a complex Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC, which seems to be in its final phase. The new one is on the otherside of the DRC in the northwest.