WHO: high number of deaths of Ebola to 4950

 
The World Health Organization said on Friday that the number of deaths and the Ebola epidemic rose to 4950 among 13 241 cases, in the three most affected countries in West Africa, and called for strict measures to stop the spread of the epidemic.

She said the United Nations agency said in a statement the latest figures until the fourth of November that "the cases are declining in some areas in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, while the sharp rises in other areas continued."

The three countries declared 1828 as the emergence of cases of the disease during the past 21 days, which is the maximum incubation period for the virus, and that 64 percent of these new cases were in Sierra Leone and 22 percent in Liberia and 14 percent in Guinea.