金沙萨——根据刚果当局周六公布的数据，刚果民主共和国暴发了有史以来最严重的埃博拉疫情，已记录在案的病例超过7000例。

但政府也表示，疫情传播可能已经达到顶峰，尽管上周该国第七个省份已确认发现该病毒。

刚果民主共和国于5月中旬正式发现最新疫情，在此次（该国第17次暴发的高传染性病毒疫情）中已有近3400人死亡。

疫情始于东北部的伊图里省，随后蔓延至受冲突困扰的东部和北部偏远地区。在这些地区，武装组织已活动数十年，政府力量薄弱，卫生基础设施匮乏。

上周，与中非共和国和刚果共和国接壤的南乌班吉省确认发现该疾病。

According to the latest figures from the Congolese authorities, 7,022 cases have been recorded since the beginning of the epidemic. Of that number, 3,398 people have died and 1,671 have recovered.“The peak was reached at the beginning of the third week of August,” Congolese government spokesman Patrick Muyaya wrote on X on Saturday.“All the indicators show a decrease in the number of cases,” he added, specifying that “10 of the 61 health zones” affected by the epidemic have not recorded any new cases “for at least 21 days.” Most of the recorded cases are in Ituri, where Ebola has been detected in schools in the days after the post-summer holiday return to classes, causing alarm among parents and health workers.“We are very worried because we don’t know which child comes from which family or what the health status of the members of that family is,” said Angele Magani, the mother of a student in Bunia, Ituri’s provincial capital.“We are so scared, even though the school authorities reassure us about the health measures that have been put in place,” she added. Bunia school official Roger Mungimbo said “there is a mandatory hand-washing system with soap, and we have also done everything possible to have a maximum of 30 pupils per classroom.” “We regularly make the children aware that they must not touch each other” and wash their hands regularly, he added. Ebola, which has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa over the last 50 years, is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids and can cause severe internal and external bleeding and organ failure.当前疫情由本迪布焦毒株引起，目前尚无获批的疫苗或疗法。多种疗法和疫苗正在测试中。