Alarm is mounting in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where officials say the number of confirmed Ebola cases has climbed to 956, including 247 deaths.
That marks an increase from Friday, when the country had recorded 933 confirmed infections and 245 deaths.
The latest rise follows a warning from the World Health Organization that the virus is spreading quickly, even as efforts to bring the outbreak under control gather pace.
The WHO said it was still struggling to keep up with the deepening crisis unfolding in northeastern DRC.
The WHO said it was still racing to catch up with the worsening situation
Authorities declared the outbreak on 15 May, but officials say the virus had already been spreading unnoticed for some time.
The outbreak has been linked to the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, which has no vaccine.
Earlier this week, the head of Africa’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo could become the worst on record, saying the cost of containing it later could run into billions of dollars if major gaps in the response are not fixed swiftly.
“If we don’t stop the outbreak very soon it will be worse than what we had in West Africa and eastern DRC,” Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya told a virtual meeting of African heads of state and donors in Burundi.
