Guinea Ebola Response

Situation of the Ebola Virus Disease after its resurgence in Guinea

Following the Ebola Virus Disease resurgence at Koropara, in the prefecture of N’Zerekore, Forest Guinea on last March 17, the Guinean Government and the National Coordination of the fight against Ebola decided to quarantine the subprefecture through a micro-quarantine in order to contain the spread, identify contacts and search for new cases during twenty one days. IOM, through its sub-office in N’Zerekore deployed over twenty one agents and recruited about twenty local volunteers to take part in the micro-quarantine by ensuring health screening at entry and exit points of the village and by intervening along with other partners near households to detect symptoms appearance and sensitize inhabitants on good hygiene practices. During that period, 7 cases were confirmed and 1072 contacts were monitored. On April 16, Koropara was declared “Ebola free” during an official ceremony led by the Guinean Minister of health, Mr. Abdourahmane Diallo.
According to the WHO situation report dated April 20, Guinea registered 3,814 cumulated, confirmed, probably and suspected Ebola Virus cases including 2,544 deaths, that is a 66.7% death rate