Ebola Death Toll Rises to 66 as Virus Hits Guinea Capital
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Guinea’s health ministry reported five suspected cases of Ebola in the capital, Conakry, as the death toll from the biggest outbreak of the infectious disease in seven years increased to 66.
At least 15 suspected cases of the virus were registered yesterday, including those in Conakry, the ministry said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. Authorities have been notified of a total of 103 suspected cases, and there has been one death in the capital, the ministry said. The spread to Conakry, a city of 1.6 million people, represents a “new dynamic” in the outbreak, though the situation is “extremely fluid,” Gregory Hartl, a WHO spokesman, said at a briefing in Geneva today.