Ebola in Nord-Kivu
As of 4 Oct 2026, Nord-Kivu province has recorded 1,729 confirmed cases and 1,005 deaths since the start of the outbreak, a case fatality rate of 58.1%. Cases are spread across 17 of the province's 34 health zones.
2nd most affected province out of 7, with 20.1% of the country's confirmed cases. First confirmed cases on 19 May 2026, the date of the first bulletin to mention it. Latest case reported on 4 Oct 2026.
Health zone map
- Confirmed cases
- Deaths
- Province
- Confirmed cases
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- Deaths
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New cases (Nord-Kivu)
New deaths (Nord-Kivu)
Place of death
in the community or in a treatment centre, week by weekTwo confirmed deaths in three occur outside treatment centres. That share says what the response does not reach: a patient who dies at home was neither isolated nor treated, and exposed their family to the end.
Affected health zones in Nord-Kivu
| Health zone | Cumulative cases | Cumulative deaths | Fatality rate | New cases (24h) | New deaths (24h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katwa | 600 | 370 | 61.7% | +6 | +3 |
| Beni | 393 | 260 | 66.2% | +8 | +4 |
| Butembo | 280 | 180 | 64.3% | +5 | +4 |
| Musienene | 138 | 69 | 50.0% | +10 | +1 |
| Kalunguta | 60 | 21 | 35.0% | 0 | 0 |
| Mabalako | 46 | 18 | 39.1% | +1 | +1 |
| Kyondo | 36 | 20 | 55.6% | 0 | 0 |
| Vuhovi | 34 | 10 | 29.4% | +2 | 0 |
| Masereka | 32 | 11 | 34.4% | +1 | 0 |
| Oicha | 31 | 16 | 51.6% | 0 | 0 |
| Lubero | 22 | 11 | 50.0% | 0 | 0 |
| Biena | 20 | 7 | 35.0% | 0 | 0 |
| Mutwanga | 16 | 3 | 18.8% | 0 | 0 |
| Manguredjipa | 13 | 5 | 38.5% | 0 | 0 |
| Alimbongo | 4 | 2 | 50.0% | 0 | 0 |
| Kayna | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | 0 | 0 |
| Goma | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 |
A province's total can differ from the sum of its health zones: the bulletins count cases and deaths not yet assigned to a zone separately. The site leaves them where the source puts them.
The response
Alerts
what surveillance receives, and what it keepsAn alert is a report — a sick person, a death, a rumour — that teams must go and check. Roughly one in five is validated as a suspected case and sampled. Many alerts means surveillance is looking; the validated share says what it finds.
Laboratory
samples tested and positive resultsPositivity is the share of samples that confirm the virus. It measures how well tests are targeted, not how many people are infected: when it rises while the number of samples stalls, only the obvious patients are being sampled and others are being missed.
Contact follow-up
exposed people, seen or lost from viewEvery confirmed case leaves contacts to follow for twenty-one days. Their number is the size of the outbreak as the response sees it; the share seen each day is the grip it keeps on it — below the threshold, exposed people transmit undetected.
Treatment centres
patients hospitalised and beds availableA saturated treatment centre pushes patients back into the community, where deaths occur outside care. Occupancy relates hospitalised patients — confirmed and suspected — to the beds the bulletin declares; it exceeds 100% where patients are placed outside the planned beds.
The main challenges mentioned in the official bulletins
Timeline in Nord-Kivu
- Official milestone
- Geographic spread
- Threshold crossed