
Dr Sakoba Keita, Head of Guinea's National Health Security Agency, said: “Guinea has entered an Ebola ‘epidemic situation’ with seven cases confirmed, including three deaths.”

On 14th February 2021, the health officials confirmed that at least three people have died in Guinea and several others have tested positive for the hemorrhagic fever, prompting authorities to declare an outbreak of the Ebola virus.
Buona Yattassaye, Deputy Head of the National Health Security Agency, said: “All patients from N’Zerekore in the southeast of the country were hospitalized, one of them in the capital Conakry.”
Guinea, the land of bauxite, world’s largest exporter of the aluminium ore and ranks second in producing bauxite keeping China behind was the epicentre of the 2014-16 Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,500 peoples in West Africa.

According to the Ministry of Health, track-down teams would be sent to the affects areas, while authorities in the capital are working to secure Ebola vaccines.
The nurse, who fell ill in late January, was buried on 1st Feb. 2021 and she was identified as the first case in the country since then. In Conakry Dr Keita said: “The nurse was likely infected by a patient. We’re looking for that patient now.”

The WHO representative Alfred George Ki-Zerbo, said: “We are going to rapidly deploy crucial assets to help Guinea, which already has considerable experience [treating the disease]. The arsenal is stronger now and we will take advantage of that to contain this situation as fast as possible.
“The WHO is on full alert and is in contact with the manufacturer [of a vaccine] to ensure the necessary doses are made available as quickly as possible to help fight back.”
On 14th February 2021, George Weah, President of Guinea’s neighbouring country Liberia put the country’s health authorities on heightened alert. Weah “has mandated the Liberian health authorities and related stakeholders in the sector to heighten the country’s surveillance and preventative activities.”
However, no cases of Ebola had been detected in Liberia so far, it added. “The president’s instruction is intended to ensure Liberia acts proactively to avoid any epidemic situation, the kind Liberia witnessed in 2014.”
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