section_path: History/Ebola outbreak
section_name: Ebola outbreak
paragraph_text: Ebola outbreak
  
  On 16 May 2018, a case of Ebola occurred in the city, the disease having spread there from an outbreak in the countryside. A new outbreak was reported on 1 June 2020. Three cases were confirmed by the WHO and three cases are probable, of whom four people had died as of June 2, 2020.