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DRC cancel World Cup training camp and fan event due to Ebola outbreak
Friendlies against Denmark and Chile still going ahead
TL;DR
- DRC's World Cup preparation camp and fan event in Kinshasa canceled due to Ebola outbreak.
- The Ebola outbreak is of the Bundibugyo type, with over 130 deaths and nearly 600 suspected cases.
- World Health Organization declared it a public health emergency of international concern.
- Friendly matches against Denmark (June 3) and Chile (June 9) are still scheduled to take place in Europe.
- The US has implemented a 30-day entry ban for foreign nationals who have been in the DRC, Uganda, or South Sudan within the past three weeks.
- The DRC football team is expected to be exempt from the US entry ban as they have been training in Europe.
- Members of the delegation who return to the DRC during the 21-day period will face quarantine requirements.
- The DRC team is in Group K of the World Cup, facing Portugal, Colombia, and Uzbekistan.
- This is the DRC's first World Cup appearance since 1974 (as Zaïre).
- Véron Mosengo-Omba has been elected president of Fecofa, the DRC's football federation.