非洲最高公共卫生机构周四表示，针对医护人员和设施的袭击日益阻碍遏制刚果民主共和国东部埃博拉疫情的努力，该疫情已造成5400多人死亡。
Attacks on health workers and facilities are increasingly hindering efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has killed more than 5,400 people, Africa's top public health agency said on Thursday.
非洲疾控中心的韦萨姆·曼库拉在周四的新闻发布会上说，事件包括四起武装袭击、16起针对应对人员的袭击，以及11家被烧毁或以其他方式成为攻击目标的医疗设施。他说，自9月下旬以来，袭击变得日益致命。曼库拉说，上周盟军民主力量——一个与伊斯兰国有关联的武装团体——对北基伍省坎蒂内-阿洛亚的袭击造成66人死亡，其中包括三名医护人员。
超过1000名接触者失去联系，三例确诊埃博拉病例下落不明。在另一场简报会上，世界卫生组织专家表示，持续的暴力有可能“逆转过去六个月取得的进展”。
The incidents included four armed attacks, 16 assaults on responders and 11 health facilities that were burned or otherwise targeted, Africa CDC's Wessam Mankoula said at a press briefing on Thursday Attacks had become increasingly deadly since late September, he said An attack on Cantine-Aloya in North Kivu last week by the Allied Democratic Forces, an armed group linked to Islamic State, killed 66 people, including three health workers, Mankoula said More than 1,000 contacts were lost to follow-up and three confirmed Ebola cases remain unaccounted for At a separate briefing, World Health Organization experts said continuing violence risked "reversing the progress made over the past six months"
世界卫生组织总干事谭德塞周三表示，不安全局势现在是埃博拉应对工作的“最大障碍之一”，限制了人道主义准入，扰乱了行动，并使快速接触社区变得更加困难。根据刚果政府数据，自5月15日宣布疫情爆发以来，已有11114人感染，5433人死亡。
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that insecurity was now "one of the greatest obstacles" to the Ebola response, restricting humanitarian access, disrupting operations and making it harder to reach communities quickly The outbreak, which was declared on May 15, has infected 11,114 people and killed 5,433, according to Congolese government data