Ebola: DRC’s 10th outbreak is declared over

The World Health Organization has declared the end of the Ebola epidemic in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, although it warned that maintaining strong surveillance and response systems would be critical to containing potential flare ups.

Many of the public health measures that successfully ended the Ebola outbreak are the same that are now essential for stopping covid-19, including finding, isolating and testing for cases, and carrying out contact tracing.

The outbreak, declared in North Kivu on 1 …