The new Beni case is among 6 reported today, bringing the outbreak total to 859 cases.
Officials halted surveillance activities in Vuhovi after a nurse from Bisongo was killed.
Also, 3 new cases raise the outbreak total to 848, including 529 deaths.
The DRC warned, however, that travel between Beni and other affected areas could bring the virus back.
Five new Ebola cases were recorded in recent days, bringing the total to 840.
The country's health ministry reports 6 new cases and 5 new deaths, including that of an infant.
Bunia, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the 19th health district to confirm an Ebola case, the DRC's ministry of health said today in its daily update.
The case in Bunia is in a 6-month-old baby whose mother died from the virus. The mother was from Katwa, and her corpse was intercepted in Komanda, where the baby is currently being treated in an Ebola treatment center.
The developments lift the outbreak total to 823 cases, including 517 deaths.
Also, the health ministry reports 3 more cases in 3 different locations.
Over the weekend and through today the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) health ministry reported 16 more lab-confirmed Ebola cases, 13 of them from Katwa, the outbreak's current hot spot. Also, in a Feb 9 update, health officials reported 7 more probable cases, all from Katwa involving people who became ill in November and December and died between November and January.
