A healthcare worker assists a colleague to dress in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at an Ebola Treatment Center in Coyah, Guinea, in 2015. Health experts in Guinea say these latest cases could be a major setback for the impoverished nation, already battling Covid-19 and which is still recovering from the previous Ebola outbreak, which killed 2,500 in Guinea where it began. A doctor tends to a two-weeks old baby, who is possibly infected with the ebola virus, at a treatment centre in eastern Guinea in 2014. "The news about the Ebola outbreak in Guinea is worrying. The Ebola vaccine being stockpiled is made by Merck.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 14, 2021 23:15 UTC