{"id":22172,"date":"2015-12-29T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/guinea-to-be-declared-free-of-ebola-virus\/"},"modified":"2015-12-29T00:28:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T00:28:41","slug":"guinea-to-be-declared-free-of-ebola-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/guinea-to-be-declared-free-of-ebola-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea to be declared free of Ebola virus"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Guinea is to be declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (WHO), two years after the epidemic began there.
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Guineans are expected to celebrate the landmark with concerts and fireworks.<\/p>\n

The disease killed more than 2,500 people in the country and a further 9,000 in Sierra Leone and Liberia.<\/p>\n

Sierra Leone was declared free of Ebola in November, but new cases have emerged in Liberia, which had been declared Ebola-free in September.<\/p>\n

A country is considered free of human-to-human transmission once two 21-day incubation periods have passed since the last known case tested negative for a second time.<\/p>\n

The disease has had an enormous social and economic impact on Guinea, the BBC’s Ibrahima Diane in Conakry says.<\/p>\n

According to the UN, 6,220 Guinean children have lost one or both parents to Ebola.<\/p>\n

More than 100 health workers also lost their lives in the fight against the disease.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, survivors are still living in fear of the stigma and long-term side effects associated with the virus, our correspondent adds.<\/p>\n

The fight against Ebola was particularly difficult in Guinea, he says.<\/p>\n

Some communities initially did not believe there was an epidemic, while others blamed it on Western countries and the Guinean authorities.<\/p>\n

The government has blamed the virus for poor economic performance and says it has also caused people to distrust the country’s health services.<\/p>\n

President Alpha Conde has doubled the health budget since winning re-election in November.<\/p>\n

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