This Article is From Oct 06, 2014

Sierra Leone Records 121 Ebola Deaths in a Single Day

Sierra Leone Records 121 Ebola Deaths in a Single Day

Survivors of the Ebola outbreak at a clinic outside Monrovia.(Reuters)

Freetown: Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared in the West African country more than four months ago, government health statistics showed on Sunday.

The figures, which covered the period through Saturday, put the total number of deaths at 678, up from 557 the day before. The daily statistics compiled by Sierra Leone's Emergency Operations Centre also showed 81 new cases of the haemorrhagic fever.

Ebola was first reported in Guinea in March and has since spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone in what has become the worst epidemic of the disease since Ebola was idenitifed in 1976.
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