{"id":916344,"date":"2026-06-29T20:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/congo-says-782-ebola-cases-confirmed-two-new-health-zones-affected\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:13:14","slug":"congo-says-782-ebola-cases-confirmed-two-new-health-zones-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/congo-says-782-ebola-cases-confirmed-two-new-health-zones-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo says 782\u00a0Ebola cases confirmed, two new health zones affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">KINSHASA, June 14 &#8211; The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 782 after 72 new cases were documented in 24 hours, one of the biggest single-day jumps during the ongoing outbreak, government data showed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The confirmed Ebola cases include 181 deaths, according to the government&#8217;s latest situation report.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The data shows that the outbreak, Congo&#8217;s 17th, remains confined to three provinces in the east: Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">But it showed that cases had been confirmed for the first time in the Nia-Nia health zone in Ituri and the Mabalako health zone in North Kivu.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">There are now confirmed cases in 20 of Ituri&#8217;s 36 health zones and in 10 of North Kivu&#8217;s 34 health zones, as well as in one health zone in South Kivu. REUTERS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Dion Mayoral <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/congo-says-782-ebola-cases-confirmed-two-new-health-zones-affected\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINSHASA, June 14 &#8211; The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 782 after 72 new cases were documented in 24 hours, one of the biggest single-day jumps during the ongoing outbreak, government data showed on Sunday. The confirmed Ebola cases include 181 deaths, according to the government&#8217;s latest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":916345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24423,23228],"tags":[14912,14228],"class_list":["post-916344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-congo","category-ebola","tag-congo","tag-ebola"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}