{"id":114774,"date":"2021-02-23T10:36:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T02:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114774"},"modified":"2021-02-23T10:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T02:36:46","slug":"ebola-11500-doses-of-vaccines-donated-by-who-arrive-in-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114774","title":{"rendered":"Ebola: 11,500 doses of  vaccines donated by WHO arrive in Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/press_release_feature\/public\/DRC_Guerrishon_mom2.jpg?itok=T2Te01b2\" alt=\"Democratic Republic of the Congo. A baby looks at his mother at an Ebola treatment centre.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>A baby looks at his mother at an Ebola treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CONAKRY, Feb 23 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; A total of 11,500 doses of Ebola vaccines donated by the World Health Organization arrived in Guinea on Monday evening, according to a statement released by Guinea&#8217;s health ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This donation will be mainly used for the vaccination of people in southeastern N&#8217;Zerekore province and will be transported to the mountainous areas of southeastern Guinea to vaccinate local residents on Tuesday, said the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flight delivering Ebola vaccine to Guinea took off from Geneva, and due to heavy fog in Guinea&#8217;s capital Conakry, it landed Sunday in Dakar, the capital of Senegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Official data shows that Guinea had confirmed 17 Ebola cases so far, five of whom have died, and a total of 380 close contacts, of whom 371 have been kept under medical observation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Feb. 14, the Ministry of Health of Guinea confirmed that there was an Ebola outbreak in N&#8217;zerekore province and reported seven confirmed cases, including three deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2013 to 2016, three countries in West Africa including Guinea were hit by an Ebola outbreak that claimed more than 11,000 lives.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baby looks at his mother at an Ebola treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. CONAKRY, Feb 23 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; A total of 11,500 doses of Ebola vaccines donated by the World Health Organization arrived in Guinea on Monday evening, according to a statement released by Guinea&#8217;s health ministry. This donation will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":114777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}