Two of the five countries affected by the world’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak are managing to halt the spread of the disease, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.
WHO said in an update on the disease: “On the whole, the outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal are pretty much contained.
“Only one case has been reported in Senegal and all contacts with the patient have now completed a 21-day follow-up, the incubation period of the disease.”
According to WHO, no further cases of the virus found.
In Nigeria, the number of cases has been cut from 21 to 20 after a suspected case was ruled out and 696 contacts have completed the 21-day follow-up.
The WHO said that three were still being monitored in Lagos and 175 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
In the three worst-hit countries, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the disease continued to spread, with a first confirmed case in the Guinean district of Kindia, and a rising death toll in all three.
Report says over half of all the deaths have occurred in Liberia, where 1,578 have died.
Another 632 have died in Guinea and 593 in Sierra Leone.
Ebola statistics are based on multiple sources of information and the number of cases divided between suspected, probable and confirmed cases could be revised.
One unexplained figure in the latest data was for the number of health workers who have died in Sierra Leone.
At 61 deaths as of September 19, it was almost double the 31 recorded in the WHO’s previous update at the end of September 14.
A WHO spokeswoman said she could not immediately explain the apparent leap in the number of dead Sierra Leone health workers.
A separate Ebola outbreak has killed 41 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 68 cases were reported as at September 18.
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