UTV | COLOMBO – An Ebola outbreak has been declared in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
There are two confirmed cases of the virus and 17 deaths, the Health Ministry said.
The incident in the town of Bikoro comes more than a year after an outbreak in the country killed four people.
In 2014, more than 11,000 people were killed in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
