(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The death toll in the world's worst-ever Ebola epidemic has now soared past 3,300, with the virus killing almost half of the more than 7,000 people it has infected, according to World Health Organization figures released yesterday.
In its latest update, the UN health agency said a total of 7,178 people had been infected across five west African countries and that of those 3,338 had died.
At the weekend, the UN health agency said a total of 6,574 people had been infected and that of those 3,091 had died. WHO has repeatedly stressed its data changes do not mean that the individuals have died or been infected in the days between updates, but rather that they reflect the belated count as the epidemic rages. Separately, health officials in the United States have announced the country's first case of Ebola in a man who was infected in Liberia and travelled to Texas. He is in a serious but stable condition.
Here are the latest WHO numbers: In Guinea, where the outbreak began late last year, Ebola had infected 1,157 people, killing 710 of them.
In Liberia, which has been hit the hardest by the outbreak, 3,696 people had been infected with Ebola and 1,998 of them had died.
In Sierra Leone, Ebola had meanwhile infected 2,304 people and killed 622 of them.
Nigeria had recorded 20 cases, including eight deaths, since Ebola first arrived in the country with a Liberian finance ministry official, who died in Lagos on July 25.
The last case confirmed in the country was on September 5.
Senegal's only confirmed Ebola case - a Guinean student who crossed the border just before it was closed on August 21 - has recovered.
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