Nigeria: No case of Ebola in LUTH – CMD

In response to the  rumour  which emanated on the social media over the weekend, to the intent that two foreign nationals, who were taken to LUTH, had died of EVD, the management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, has said no one has died of Ebola Virus Disease in the tertiary institution.

Sierra Leone: President orders 3 day national lockdown in bid to stem Ebola

The Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Koromo ordered the country’s entire population Saturday to keep to their homes on March 27 29 in a bid to stem the spread of the deadly.

Ebola: Liberia re- opened schools

Some schools in Liberia have re - opened, six months after they were closed to try to curb the Ebola spread. Pupils welcomed the move, but some raised fears that the deadly disease had not yet been totally eradicated. Staff at school gates were equipped with thermometers to take pupils' temperatures and buckets of chlorinated water for them to wash their hands.

 Liberia was one of three West African states worst affected by the Ebola outbreak,  which was identified in March 2013. More than 9,000 people have been killed by the virus, but there has been a general decline in the number of cases in recent weeks.

Sierra Leone: Ebola funds missing

Sierra Leone’s auditor-general’s report alleges that the government could not account for nearly a third of the 20 million dollars earmarked for fighting Ebola in 2014.The report which was released on Saturday in Freetown indicated that bad governance might have hindered the battle against the epidemic.The Auditor-General’s Office in the country said the report looked at 19.5 million dollars that government set aside for fighting the hemorrhagic fever from the start of the outbreak between May and October, 2014.

Uk: Nurse healed from Ebola

  

Pauline Cafferkey the Britrish nurse who contracted the deadly Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone has left the hospital, cured.

Liberia: Ebola cases are on the fall

          

      

The Ebola  virus is continually on the decrease in Liberia which has only 5 recorded cases and is close to eradicating an epidemic which has left thousands dead, this was said by the Liberian assistant health minister although this has not be confirmed by WHO whose statistics often differ from that of the individual country.

Declining new cases of Ebola in West Africa

UN weekly figures show decline in  new Ebola cases in the three West African countries (Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone) worst affected by the deadly outbreak of the virus.