Five pa­tients have re­cov­ered from a rare type of Ebo­la virus, the head of the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion said Sun­day dur­ing a vis­it to Bunia in east­ern Con­go, a city at the heart of an out­break.

“Four peo­ple will be dis­charged to­day and there was one that was dis­charged the day be­fore yes­ter­day,” WHO Di­rec­tor-Gen­er­al Tedros Ad­hanom Ghe­breye­sus said dur­ing the open­ing of a new Ebo­la treat­ment cen­tre in Bunia, the cap­i­tal of Ituri province.

“Of course, we’re still work­ing on vac­cines and treat­ments but that doesn’t mean that peo­ple can­not re­cov­er from Ebo­la,” he added.