Likati District

Likati is a district in the Bas-Uélé Province in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It was the site of an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in 2017.[1] According to the World Health Organization, it is situated in the remote, isolated and hard-to-reach northern part of DRC, with limited transport and communication networks.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Dr Oly Ilunga Kalenga, Minister of Public Health, announces an epidemic of Ebola Virus Disease in Likati district, Bas-Uélé Province (northern DRC) following confirmation by the National Biomedical Research Institute". ReliefWeb. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  2. ↑ "Twitter". WHO. 13 May 2017.

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