WHO declares Guinea Ebola free
The World Health Organisation, WHO, on Tuesday declared
Guinea Ebola-free, after more than 2,500 people died from the virus, leaving
Liberia as the only country still waiting for the end of the epidemic.
People in the capital, Conakry, greeted the declaration by
authorities and the WHO with mixed emotions, given the deaths and the damage
the virus caused the economy and the country's health and education sectors,
reports Reuters.
Rene Migliani, WHO Official, National Coordination Centre
for the Fight Against Ebola, said Ebola had made more than 6,200 children
orphans in Guinea.
He said there were more than 3,800 Ebola cases in Guinea out
of the more than 28,600 cases globally with 11,300 deaths.
Migliani said almost all the cases and deaths were in Guinea
and its neighbours Liberia and Sierra Leone.
WHO said a country was declared Ebola-free 42 days after the
recovery or death of the last patient and if there were no new infections.
It said Liberia lost more than 4,800 people to the
haemorrhagic fever, ``but if all goes well, the country can be declared virus-free
in January.''
The country was declared Ebola-free in May and September,
but each time new cases emerged thereafter
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