Press Briefing By the Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Team, Hon Dr Kwaku Agyemang Mensah, for the Management of Ebola Viral Disease, 31 July 2014

The Ministry of Health (Ghana) continues to monitor the progression of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. As of 23rd July, WHO states there have been a total of over 1,200 (1,201) cases of which more than half (56%) have died. More people get infected daily and some more die each day. On the average, in the past week, 50 new cases were diagnosed each day. This means the epidemic is far from slowing down and we must as a nation do all we can to keep it at bay. Read Full Story