A patient with Ebola escaped from a medical center in Congo

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo from the clinic in the town of Beni ran one of the patients with Ebola. This was reported to the world health organization (who), stressing that the incident that occurred on Friday, could lead to further spread of the disease.

Medical center left 28-year-old driver of a motorcycle taxi, whose analysis has previously confirmed the virus of Ebola, reports Reuters. Now we are searching for the fugitive.

"We are trying by all means to take him out of the village", – quotes RIA Novosti representative of the operation who response to the Ebola virus bubacar Diallo.

The Deputy mayor of the city of Beni Muhindo Bukanlah confirmed that local authorities have not yet managed to track down an escaped patient. The official also said that without treatment the patient dies, however, have time to infect many around them.

Earlier it was planned that on April 13 the DR Congo will be able to declare complete victory over Ebola. However, on 10 April, after 52 days after he recovered the last cases were registered new cases of infection. The country has identified six new cases of infection with Ebola virus, since April 10, two people died.

The current Ebola outbreak in the DRC began in late July 2018. A year later, who characterized the situation of Ebola in the Congo as an emergency situation on an international scale.