Ebola grips 58 persons in Guinea

Guinean authorities have announced that 58 people had been confined to their homes after being identified as contacts of a woman, who contracted the Ebola virus.

The Ebola case was discovered in Ivory Coast over the weekend in an 18-year-old Guinean woman who had travelled by road from Labe.

It was Ivory Coast’s first known case of the disease since 1994.

The discovery in Ivory Coast came nearly two months after the United Nations’ health agency declared an end to Guinea’s second outbreak of Ebola, which started last year and killed 12 people.

The regional health director, Mamadou Houdy bah said, 58 contacts have been identified in Labe.