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Thirteen Ebola patients leave Beni treatment centres

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Thirteen Ebola patients leave Beni treatment centresJérémy Toma · CC BY-SA 4.0

Thirteen patients who recovered from Ebola have left treatment centres in Beni, North Kivu, after testing negative, while 58 new cases were reported in the province within 24 hours. Ituri has exceeded 7,200 cumulative cases and remains the epicentre of the outbreak, according to healthcare teams.

Thirteen patients who recovered from Ebola left the Beni treatment centres in North Kivu province on Tuesday 27 October after testing negative, according to healthcare workers cited by Actualité.cd. They had been hospitalised for an average of about ten days.

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