KEY POINTS
Provisional total of 12 newly confirmed cases in Sierra Leone during the week to 7 June, emanating from just 2 districts (Kambia and Port Loko).
The sensitization and active Ebola case search campaign in Dubréka (Guinea) began yesterday.
Key Political and Economic Developments
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Response Efforts and Health
2 In total, 27,189 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of Ebola have been reported in the three most affected countries. There have been 11,149 reported deaths.
3 In Sierra Leone, the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) reported 4 newly confirmed cases over the weekend, 3 in Port Loko (2 in Kaffu Bullom, 1 in BKM) and 1 in Kambia (Tonko Limba), bringing the provisional total number of newly confirmed cases for the week to 7 June to 12 (the same total as during the week to 31 May). All of the cases emanated from just 2 districts.
4 In Guinea, the sensitization and active case search campaign in Dubréka began yesterday. Door-todoor sensitization activities were organized in Tanene, where recent cases of violent resistance took place. WHO had earlier redeployed some members of its monitoring team from the Forest Region to Dubréka.
5 Guinea’s National Coordination has informed that last week’s confirmed case in Boké was a community death who had been registered as a contact but not traced due to recent cases of community resistance.
The person died at the home of a traditional healer. This incident shows that some traditional healers in the prefecture are still reticent to the Ebola response strategies.
6 As community resistance in Fria prefecture has eased, contact tracing has continued. However, it has been reported that some of the recent contacts have still not been traced, since they had fled the Ebola response teams. A refusal of contact tracing teams has also been reported in Kaounda Baila locality. A UNICEF and WHO team has been deployed to the locality to help to solve the issue.