More than 1,100 suspected Ebola cases are under investigation in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, with 263 confirmed cases and 43 deaths reported so far.

Africa CDC director Jean Kaseya called for faster action and criticized Africa’s reliance on external funding to manage outbreaks.

A $319 million regional response plan has been adopted by the health ministers of DR Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan.

The outbreak, declared on May 15 in northeastern DR Congo, has spread across three Congolese provinces and into Uganda, involving the Bundibugyo strain, which has no approved vaccine or treatment, Barron’s has reported.

The World Health Organization has issued an international health alert, warning that the actual scale of the outbreak may be larger than current estimates.