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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the World Service of the BBC, coming live from London with Owen Bennett-Chones.

And we'll take a look at the Champions League final a little later on.

But first, the medical charity Med Sinsinseng

Frontier has warned that Ebola is spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at a deeply alarming rate.

And in recognition of the scale of the problem, the WHO's World Health Organization's Director General,

Tedros Adonom, Gibriasis, has traveled to Bunya in Congo at the heart of the outbreak.

It's an attempt to highlight the risks posed by this Budibugyo Ebola strain, which has already infected 1,000 people and killed over 200.

At a press conference in Bunya, the WHO Director General had this to say.

I came because the people of Italy, the Kibus, and all of DRC deserve to know that they're not alone.

As we know, DRC has faced Ebola before 16 times and has

ended every outbreak and this is the 17s. That history gives me real confidence. Well, the BBC's

Emery Macumano has been travelling with the WHO boss. He sent this

report from Bunya in Eastern DRC. One of the first stops was the National Institute for Biomedical

Research Laboratory where samples from suspected Ebola patients are tested. Health officials say the facility is now

able to return results within 24 hours helping doctors quickly identify infections and begin

treatments. Until recently, samples had to be transported more than 1,500 kilometers to the capital,

Kinshasa, causing delays that health workers feared good cause lives and allowed the virus to spread further. The laboratory

was relocated to Brunea last week to speed up the response. More than a thousand people

have so far been identified and suspected Ebola cases.

Earlier, Dr. Tedros met Ituri's governor, General Johnny Luboya, as authorities and

international health agencies step up efforts to contain the outbreak.

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