Congo Ebola Deaths Surpass 1,000

A Congolese health worker prepares to administer Ebola vaccine, outside the house of a victim who died from Ebola in the village of Mangina in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Aug. 18, 2018. Olivia Acland/Reuters

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo/GENEVA—The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Congo rose above 1,000 on Friday, April 3.

The World Health Organization said it expected the nine-month outbreak to continue spreading though the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, and announced plans to expand vaccinations in the coming weeks once a new treatment by Johnson & Johnson is approved.