June 22 (UPI) -- The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has climbed to 1,003, with 254 deaths, officials said. The latest report from Congo health officials , released Sunday, said that the response to the outbreak, concentrated in the provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, had an increase in the number of recoveries from the disease but a decline in the contact follow-up rate. One hundred people have recovered since the World Health Organization