The number of confirmed Ebola virus disease cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has for the first time surpassed the 8,000-case threshold, according to government data released on Monday, September 28, 2026.
According to the latest situation report from the National Institute of Public Health, the total number of confirmed cases now stands at 8,067, while the death toll reaches 3,901.
A particularly deadly outbreak
This outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus, is now regarded as the largest and deadliest outbreak ever recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Its scale surpasses that of the outbreak that occurred in the country between 2018 and 2020, which had already constituted one of the most serious health crises in the recent history of the DRC.
The West Africa outbreak remains the largest
On the international level, this Congolese flare-up remains, however, surpassed by the Ebola outbreak that struck West Africa between 2014 and 2016.
This latter had affected more than 28,600 people and caused more than 11,000 deaths in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
