The risk of the Ebola epidemic is “high at the national and regional levels, but low at the global level”, and the situation is not a “pandemic emergency”, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, reported Xinhua.

Speaking at a press conference, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that a WHO emergency committee met on Tuesday and agreed with his earlier assessment that the Ebola situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda is a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), but is not a pandemic emergency.

Tedros declared...