More than 7,000 Ebola cases have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s worst outbreak of the deadly disease ever, according to figures from the Congolese authorities. The DRC officially detected the latest outbreak in mid-May, with nearly 3,400 people killed in its 17th epidemic of the highly infectious virus. It began in the northeastern Ituri province before spreading to conflict-plagued, remote eastern and northern regions where armed groups have roamed for decades, the presence of the state is weak, and health infrastructure is largely lacking. Earlier last week, the disease was confirmed to have spread to a seventh province, South-Ubangi, which borders the Central African Republic and Congo-Brazzaville. According to the latest figures from the Congolese authorities, 7,022 cases have been recorded since the beginning of the epidemic, of whom 3,398 have died, and 1,671 people have recovered. Most of the recorded c
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