The United Nations announced Tuesday 16 Feb 2021 it is releasing $15 million from its emergency relief fund to help Guinea and Congo combat new outbreaks of Ebola.
This is the first time that Ebola has been recorded in Guinea since an outbreak that ended in 2016. The West African nation officially declared it had an Ebola epidemic after at least three people died and four others became infected.
Neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia have put their citizens on high alert because of the situation in Guinea. The three nations battled the world’s deadliest Ebola outbreak from 2014 to 2016, which began in Guinea and in which more than 11,300 people died.
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