The media learned about the EU's plans to allocate almost €500 million to fight Ebola in DR Congo

The European Union will provide €493 million in financial assistance to combat the outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa. On June 17, the Reuters news agency reported.

The publication clarifies that this amount includes the provision of medical care at the forefront of the response to the outbreak, humanitarian assistance in the Great Lakes region of Africa and Uganda, research on vaccines and treatments for filoviruses, as well as long-term work to increase preparedness and improve health systems.

The European Commission continues to closely monitor the outbreak of fever in coordination with its partners, although the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control currently assesses the risk to the European population as very low, writes Reuters.

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On June 9, the World Health Organization confirmed 550 cases of Ebola infection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with 101 people becoming victims of the disease. The main focus of infection remains the province of Ituri, which accounts for 94% of the total number of cases, which is 487 people.

The Guardian newspaper reported on June 6: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claims that the Ebola virus may be on a "dangerous trajectory" and risks matching the record outbreak of 2014. On May 27, Reuters reported that the United Nations had allocated $60 million from an emergency fund to help quell the outbreak of the Ebola virus in the DRC.