DR Congo Declares end to Measles Outbreak

The Democratic Republic of Congo authority has confirmed the world’s largest measles outbreak has now ended.

The disease had killed more than 7,000 children.

At a press conference in the capital, Kinshasa, health minister, Eteni Longondo, said measles no longer existed in the country.

Dr Congo has been experiencing recurring outbreaks for the last decade but the infections increased significantly in June last year.

Report has it that health workers have over the last year simultaneously battled measles, vaccine-derived polio, cholera, coronavirus, two ebola epidemics and the bubonic plague.