New Delhi: Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda on Monday reviewed India’s preparedness and response measures ebola virus disease Noting recent outbreaks in parts of Africa, the World Health Organization has warned that the pandemic is “outpacing” response efforts.However, the Health Ministry said that no case of Ebola has been reported in India so far.News agency ANI reported that the review meeting was attended by the Health Secretary, Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Director General of Health Services (DGHS), Additional Secretary (Public Health), Director of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) and other senior officials of the ministry.It comes as WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that there had been 220 suspected deaths in the current outbreak and warned that delays in detecting infections had hampered containment efforts.“We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the pandemic is ahead of us,” Tedros said, urging countries bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of the outbreak, to take immediate action.Tedros said he would travel to Congo on Tuesday and said tackling the rapidly spreading outbreak was particularly difficult because Ituri and North Kivu provinces remained highly vulnerable and there were no approved vaccines for the Bundibugyo strain.Earlier in the day, Uganda recorded two more cases of Ebola in the capital Kampala, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to seven.Meanwhile, Uganda’s neighbor and center of the current outbreak, Congo, has reported more than 900 suspected infections so far, AFP reported.WHO has declared the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola a public health emergency of international concern, while the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has classified it as a public health emergency of continental concern (PHECS).