According to the World Health Organization, suspects in the West African country of Guinea are now suspected of suspected new cases of the Ebola virus.
“WHO has been notified of two suspected cases of Ebola in Guinea-Conakry, “said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus late on Saturday. ‘Affirmative testing in progress. WHOAFRO and WHO country office supporting the willingness and response efforts. ”
In the latest Reuters report, referring to Guinean health authorities, the death toll was placed among eight cases on three people, noting that these are the first cases of Ebola in Guinea since the world’s worst outbreak in 2013-2016.
Local reports also put the death toll at three, with a small group of cases occurring in the Gouécké community in the south of the country. Gouécké and the nearby center of Nzérékoré are not far from the borders with Liberia and Ivory Coast.
Health Minister Rémy Lamah said at least one patient was taken to Conakry for treatment rather than kept in solitary confinement, which is worrying as officials are waiting for a second set of results to confirm the Ebola infections.
Lamah promised a more comprehensive statement when the tests are available.
The early reports from Guinea come when officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo announced a third case of an emerging Ebola virus in the country’s volatile east.
The World Health Organization said this case was confirmed in Katwa, a few kilometers east of Butembo, and the first new case reported there last week. These new cases have arisen since Congolese officials declared an end to Ebola in June, following an outbreak that claimed 2,300 lives, many of them in Katwa and Butembo.
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