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Tuesday 29 Dec 2015 - 10:05 Makkah mean time-18-3-1437
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Conakry (IINA) – Guinea was declared free of Ebola on Tuesday after more than 2,500 people died from the virus in the West African nation, Reuters reported.
People in the Guinean capital of Conakry greeted the declaration by authorities and the World Health Organization (WHO) with mixed emotions given the deaths and the damage the virus has inflicted to the economy and the country's health and education sectors.
Ebola has orphaned about 6,200 children in Guinea, said Rene Migliani, an official at the National Coordination Center for the fight against Ebola.
There were more than 3,800 Ebola cases in Guinea out of more than 28,600 cases globally with 11,300 deaths, according to figures from the WHO. Almost all the cases and deaths were in Guinea and its neighbors Liberia and Sierra Leone.
A country is declared Ebola free 42 days after the recovery or death of the final patient and if there are no new infections.
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