Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo: confirmed cases surpass 10,000

The toll of the ongoing Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has crossed the threshold of 10,000 confirmed cases. According to the report cited on October 27 by Actualite.cd, with data current as of October 25, the total stands at 10,060 confirmed cases and 4,887 deaths since the start of the epidemic, for a reported case fatality rate of 48.6%.

On October 25 alone, 96 new cases were reported, distributed across three provinces: 58 in North Kivu, 32 in Ituri and 6 in Tshopo. On the same day, 46 confirmed deaths were recorded, of which 40 occurred in the community and 6 in treatment centers — a distinction the report considers significant, since community deaths, unlike those in health facilities, indicate cases not caught in time by the care system.

The epidemic, declared on May 15, 2026, has by now affected 66 health zones spread across eight provinces of the country: a geographic extent the report links to the difficulty of containing transmission across a vast area with uneven health systems. The number of provinces involved also signals the logistical pressure on the health response, which must coordinate across territories far apart from one another and with often precarious transport infrastructure.

On the response front, the organization Doctors Without Borders states that it has mobilized more than 2,800 workers in the provinces of North Kivu, Ituri and South Kivu. This is a figure provided by the organization itself, an active participant in the health response on the ground, and should be read as such: a measure of the declared scale of the humanitarian effort, not an independent gauge of its effectiveness in containing the epidemic.

The most recent figure available for this epidemic remains the one reported today: 10,060 confirmed cases and 4,887 deaths, with data that the report itself describes as current as of October 25. The next communications from the Congolese Ministry of Health will indicate whether the pace of new infections, 96 in a single day, holds steady or slows in the coming weeks.