A new outbreak of Ebola has killed five people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to multiple sources.
 
The announcement of new Ebola cases came just two days before officials were set to declare an end to the most recent outbreak of the virus in Congo.
Authorities say the outbreak is in its final stages, but it nonetheless is digging up painful memories for many people on the continent, who fought another deadly Ebola pandemic from 2014 to 2016. And now, those that survived are bracing for spikes in another pandemic: the coronavirus.
 
West Africa is home to some of the poorest countries in the world. With coronavirus cases beginning to surge in the region, nations with already dire health systems are facing the almost unthinkable prospect of another widespread pandemic.

Although coronavirus outbreaks have been relatively small in the region so far – with Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Burkina Faso each having reported less than 1,000 cases – experts fear a sharp increase in cases may be inevitable. The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa has warned that the wider African continent could see as many as 123 million cases and 300,000 deaths this year.

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