It's Congo's 17th outbreak, with a toll that has eclipsed that of the country's 2018-2020 outbreak when 2,299 deaths out of 3,481 cases were recorded.
The latest data shows 101 new cases and 33 deaths reported in the previous 24 hours. Over 1,000 people have recovered, while 730 remain in hospitals or isolation.
The outbreak has infected and killed more people at a greater speed than any other outbreak in history.
The World Health Organization has said it is on track to surpass the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the deadliest on record with more than 11,000 deaths.
Trish Newport, emergency coordinator with Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said the limited community engagement in the outbreak remains a key challenge.
'The community needs to be aware about the outbreak,' she told The Associated Press, adding that people 'need to be involved in the response, and they need to know what the signs and symptoms are and what to do if they get sick. And this today is not happening in every single place where there are Ebola cases.'
Starting from the first confirmed case, the outbreak reached the 2,000 death toll almost three times faster than in the 2014-16 outbreak.
Some families have lost up to 15 of their relatives in the epicenter, the Ituri province, said Newport.
'We rapidly need to scale up to be able to prevent more deaths from happening, more families and communities from being impacted,' she added.
There are no approved vaccines or treatments for the rare Bundibugyo virus responsible for the current outbreak across six provinces in Congo's east. Trials for those are ongoing in Ituri.
Most new cases and deaths are being reported outside of the people being monitored.
Challenges facing medical teams dealing with the outbreak also include strikes by some unpaid health workers, threats by rebel groups, anger from long-traumatized communities, bad roads making it difficult to reach all the affected territories, and misinformation claiming that Ebola isn't real.
WHO warned over the weekend that the outbreak is still moving at an 'exceptional pace' ahead of efforts to track it, noting that it reached a weekly record of 579 cases and 304 deaths in the previous week.
'A substantial scaling up of response activities is underway to get ahead of the outbreak,' the U.N. health agency said.
Experts believe the virus was spreading in the mining town of Mongbwalu as early as February – months before authorities declared the outbreak on May 15.
On Friday, U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher announced the allocation of an additional $30.5 million and the deployment of 20 more staff to aid the response on the frontlines.
'This is a wake-up call,' Fletcher said. 'We need speed, scale and solidarity before this virus gets even further ahead of us.'
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