[GTranslate]As the world fights against Covid, a new Ebola epidemic erupts in Africa. The alarm after the discovery of 7 cases of haemorrhagic fever. “We are facing an epidemic,” said the head of the Guinea Health Agency Sakoba Keita, after an emergency meeting in Conakry, the capital of the African country. There are already 3 dead: it hadn’t happened for 5 years. All the people who have been in contact are in solitary confinement.
The presence of Ebola was confirmed by a laboratory in the capital. The cases were found in the Nzerekore region, where the epidemic broke out in 2013.
WHO will rapidly deliver vaccines against the Ebola virus. “We intend to rapidly deliver the necessary tools to help Guinea, which has already developed a great deal of experience”, said at a press conference in Geneva professor Alfred George Ki-Zerbo of the WHO at the end of a meeting with the health authorities of Conakry.
Guinea’s announcement comes a week after eastern Congo confirmed it has registered cases. In North Kivu, 2 people also died here from the Ebola virus.
In West Africa, Ebola between 2013 and 2016 caused more than 11,300 deaths in 10 countries in the region.
