This makes the number more than eight times higher than over the same time frame during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the most severe on the continent to date. The death toll during this period is more than six times higher, Kaseya said. About 2300 people died in the second-worst recorded outbreak, which took place from 2018 to 2020 in eastern DR Congo. The passenger had disembarked after getting sick in Pimu, in the province of Mongala, more than 1000km from Kinshasa, Kaseya said, adding that the capital has no confirmed Ebola case. News of the passenger's death caused panic in Kinshasa, which is far from the eastern region hit by the outbreak.