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    The colliding epidemics of COVID-19, Ebola, and measles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    (Elsevier, 2020) Nachega, Jean B.; Mbala-Kingebeni, Placide; Otshudiema, John; Zumla, Alimuddin; Tam-Fum, Jean-Jacques Muyembe
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Democratic Republic of the Congo is facing major public health challenges due to a confluence of major outbreaks of Ebola virus disease, measles, and COVID-19.1–4 The tenth Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo began on Aug 1, 2018, and as of May 28, 2020, there have been 3406 Ebola virus disease cases with 2243 deaths. The Ebola virus disease outbreak was well controlled in northeast DR Congo following a multisectoral response, but four new confirmed Ebola cases were detected in northwest DR Congo on June 1, 2020, and an outbreak response is underway.4 Additionally, the DR Congo has been burdened with recurrent measles outbreaks: 13 3802 cases in 2011, 88381 cases in 2013, and 311471 cases in 2019.2 The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in DR Congo was diagnosed on March 10, 2020, and the government declared a state of emergency on March 24, 2020. A national multisectoral response committee instituted lockdown in the capital, Kinshasa, the epicentre of the epidemic in DR Congo, in which daily confirmed cases now average 100. As of June 16, 2020, 4777 COVID-19 cases with 106 deaths have been reported from the DR Congo.