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Sep 17, 2026
Geneva [Switzerland], September 17: Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), said on Wednesday that there are encouraging signs of declining Ebola transmission in some of the worst-affected areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with more than 1,700 patients having recovered.
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