Two more people died from Ebola and seven new cases were confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, as a vaccination campaign began to halt an outbreak that's reached a provincial capital.
A nurse died in Bikoro, the remote town in Equateur province where the outbreak was first reported, while the other death was in Mbandaka, the provincial capital about 150 kilometers (93 miles) away, Congo's Health Ministry said. The new cases were all around Bikoro.
The fatalities bring the death toll in the central African nation's ninth recorded Ebola outbreak to 28. Fifty-one suspected cases of the virus, including 28 confirmed and 21 probable, have been recorded since the outbreak was declared in Equateur on May 8, according to the ministry.