The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) launched a June-to-November $518 million joint plan on Friday to tackle the Ebola outbreak causing alarm in the Democratic Republic of Congo and its neighbors.

"The plan focuses on core areas: emergency coordination, surveillance, laboratory testing, infection prevention and control, clinical care and community engagement," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference.