The Red Cross is deploying 700 aid workers to combat the recent new Ebola outbreak in West African Guinea. The aid organization is deeply concerned about the situation there.
The hundreds of aid workers who are now going to Guinea are used, among other things, for source and contact research into Ebola infections. They also provide clean water and sanitation and help to safely bury the Ebola deaths.
The disease is emerging in the country for the first time in five years. The first cases came to light in early February after a nurse’s funeral. Four people have now died of the virus and at least four others have been hospitalized.
‘Time is running out’
More than 11,000 people in Guinea died in the Ebola epidemic between 2014 and 2016. In 2016, World Health Organization WHO declared the country Ebola free.
“Time is running out,” said Mohammed Mukhier, head of the International Red Cross in Africa. “The virus comes back at the worst possible time.” Mukhier is especially concerned because Guinea is also dealing with the corona pandemic.
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