Ebola: Four dead after new outbreak in Congo

A health worker injects a woman with an Ebola vaccine during a trial in Monrovia n 2015: REUTERS
A health worker injects a woman with an Ebola vaccine during a trial in Monrovia n 2015: REUTERS

Four people have died from Ebola in a new outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s health ministry confirmed on Monday.

It comes as authorities confirmed a new case of the deadly virus in the western province of Equateur, over 1,000km (620 miles) away from the ongoing outbreak in the country's east.