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Ebola patient in DR Congo city of Goma has died

Officials have set up screening stations in Goma, which has a border crossing into Rwanda

The first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma has died, the governor of North Kivu province said on Tuesday.

The case -- the first in a major urban hub in the region's nearly year-old epidemic of the disease -- has sparked deep concern in neighbouring Rwanda and at the UN.

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