{"id":52484,"date":"2026-08-06T13:41:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=52484"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:56:57","slug":"dr-congo-halts-passenger-boat-outside-kinshasa-over-suspected-ebola-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/dr-congo-halts-passenger-boat-outside-kinshasa-over-suspected-ebola-case\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo halts passenger boat outside Kinshasa over suspected Ebola case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have intercepted a passenger boat outside Kinshasa following the death of a former passenger suspected of having Ebola, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel, which traveled from the outbreak-hit Tshopo province, was halted about 65 km from central Kinshasa. Health Minister Roger Kamba said the alert was triggered after a passenger disembarked in Mongala province developed symptoms including a fever and diarrhea, and later died.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are being cautious,&#8221; Kamba said, noting that it was a suspected case rather than a confirmed one.<\/p>\n<p>A security and health cordon has been established around the vessel while a mobile laboratory tested all passengers and crew, government spokesperson Patrick Muyaya said later Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials urged calm in Kinshasa, a megacity of nearly 20 million people where no Ebola case has been confirmed. The capital is not among the five provinces affected by the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The incident coincided with a high-level meeting on strengthening the national response to the Ebola outbreak, held on Wednesday and chaired by DRC President Felix Tshisekedi, alongside World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director-General Jean Kaseya.<\/p>\n<p>Participants stressed the need to protect health workers and detect cases earlier to reduce deaths occurring in homes and communities, according to the DRC presidential office.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the global medical charity Doctors Without Borders warned Wednesday that the situation in eastern DRC was &#8220;more critical than ever,&#8221; spreading at an alarming and unprecedented pace with &#8220;no sign of slowing down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DRC is battling its largest Ebola outbreak, which has recorded 3,973 confirmed cases since the outbreak was declared on May 15, including 1,801 deaths and 776 recoveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have intercepted a passenger boat outside Kinshasa following the death of a former passenger suspected of having Ebola, officials said Wednesday. The vessel, which traveled from the outbreak-hit Tshopo province, was halted about 65 km from central Kinshasa. Health Minister Roger Kamba said the alert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52485,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52484\/revisions\/52485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}