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Tuesday 19 Jan 2016 - 11:30 Makkah mean time-9-4-1437
Ebola virus outbreak, West Africa (Image from Internet)
Freetown (IINA) – Sierra Leone has identified more than 100 contacts of a new Ebola case that emerged in the north of the West African nation last week, and 28 of those people are at high risk, AP reported citing officials.
Swabs from a 22-year-old woman who died last week tested positive for Ebola, Sierra Leone authorities said Friday. The case came a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the West Africa's Ebola outbreak over.
At least 28 high risk contacts have been placed under quarantine, and the remaining 109 contacts are being assessed, Director of Disease, Control and Prevention in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation Dr Foday Dafae said Monday.
Three known contacts are missing, National Coordinator of Office of National Security, Ishmael Tarawallie, said over the weekend.
"We are worried and concerned about this new development," Tarawallie said Saturday of the new case, adding that the woman's death came as Sierra Leone was entering its 68th day of 90 days of heightened surveillance. "It was not unexpected that a flare-up was possible."
Nearly 4,000 people died before Sierra Leone was first declared free from transmission on November 7. Ebola has killed more than 11,300 people, mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, since this outbreak emerged in late 2013.
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