30 new Ebola cases, lowest weekly figure in nearly a year: WHO
Thirty confirmed cases of Ebola were reported in West Africa in the past week, the smallest number in nearly a year of the worst ever outbreak of the deadly fever, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The virus is receding in Liberia, which reported no cases in the week to April 5, and in Sierra Leone, which reported nine, its fifth consecutive weekly decrease, it said. The Ebola epidemic, which began in December 2013, has claimed 10,572 lives among 25,515 known cases, according to the United Nations health agency. The WHO has called a meeting of independent experts this week to review whether West Africa's outbreak still constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern", which it declared in August 2014.
