The number of new weekly Ebola cases rose for first time in 2015 in
all three of the hard-hit countries of West Africa, the World Health
Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
Sierra Leone accounted for 80 of the 124 new cases of the disease
confirmed in the week to Feb. 1, it said. Guinea recorded 39 cases while
Liberia had just five.
“Weekly case incidence increased in all three countries for the first
time this year,” the WHO said in its latest update. Community
resistance to aid workers, increasing geographical spread in Guinea and
widespread transmission in Sierra Leone remain “significant challenges”
to ending the epidemic, it said.
Reuters
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