India, May 23 -- The World Health Organization has raised the public health risk level of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from "high" to "very high", as the virus continues to spread rapidly across the country's conflict-hit eastern provinces.

WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, however, that the global risk remains "low".

The United Nations is rushing emergency personnel, supplies and funding into eastern DRC to contain the fast-growing outbreak.

So far, 82 confirmed cases and seven deaths have been officially recorded in DRC. However, WHO warns that the actual scale of the outbreak could be significantly larger, with nearly 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths under investigation....