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KINSHASA, Dec 1 (Reuters) – An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now over, Congolese health officials and the U.N.’s World Health Organization said on Monday, after the country went 42 consecutive days without recording a new case.

The outbreak, declared on September 4 after the disease was identified in the Bulape health zone in Congo’s Kasai Province, was the country’s first since 2022. Out of a total of 64 cases, 45 people died and 19 others recovered, according to the Congolese health ministry.

From the early days of the outbreak, Congo used a revamped national surveillance system to enable authorities to rapidly map the affected area and contain transmission.

“Controlling and ending this Ebola outbreak in three m

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