Five people who recovered from Ebola were discharged from treatment in Béni in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Sunday.
The survivors, who included a healthcare worker, had been hospitalized at the Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center and at the Ebola treatment center at Béni Hospital.
As they received a certificate confirming they had been cured, the survivors expressed their thanks to the medical teams that had cared for them, and urged their compatriots to seek treatment if ill.
But the number of Ebola cases continues to rise, and the survivors’ discharge came as authorities announced that the outbreak in the African nation had surpassed 6,000 cases.
They also said that the outbreak in DRC had claimed 2,911 deaths.
More than 1,360 people have recovered from the virus, in what authorities called an “encouraging” development.
