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Conakry enacts emergency response as old virus emerges By AFP Published: Feb 25, 2021 06:23 PM
Medical workers disinfect the coffin of a deceased unconfirmed Ebola patient inside an Ebola Treatment Centre run by the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA), in Beni on August 13, 2018. Photo: VCGA man in a navy suit grinned as he left an airbase in Guinea s capital Conakry on Wednesday after being vaccinated for Ebola, one of the first to receive the jab since the deadly disease reemerged in the West African country.
He was among a handful of people to volunteer for an early Ebola vaccination as part of a program the government hopes will crush the outbreak by April.
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Guinea launches Ebola vaccination drive in country’s south Al Jazeera English
Guinea has launched an Ebola vaccination campaign to halt the spread of the deadly disease which hit the country’s south this month and has already caused several deaths.
The vaccination drive got under way on Tuesday in Gouecke, in the N’Zerekore prefecture where the first cases were detected on February 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, adding that the launch started with the vaccination of health workers.
“The vaccination uses the ‘ring strategy’ where all people who have come into contact with a confirmed Ebola patient are given the vaccine, as well as frontline and health workers,” the WHO said in a statement on Tuesday.
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