December 2019: DRC and Rwanda jointly launch Ebola campaign

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) jointly launched the countries’ first-ever cross-border Ebola prevention campaign on December 8—deploying 200,000 doses of an investigational vaccine near the border in Rwanda’s Rubavu District. DRC declared the outbreak in August and has reported 3,382 cases and 2,232 deaths as of January 1. WHO; WHO