A shocking data analysis of the extent of the Ebola epidemic has revealed that the Ebola virus disease killed not less than 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229.
The figures, released by the World Health Organisation today, show the death toll surpassed the 1,000-mark over a week ago, soared higher from last Thursday to Saturday.
The number of confirmed infections jumped by 113 over the three days, bringing the total number of cases to 2,240, the UN health agency said, adding that Liberia is the hardest-hit country in the latest figures, with 48 new cases and 53 deaths.
This means Liberia now has a total count of cases numbering 834, with 466 deaths of infected persons.
A sign warning of the dangers of ebola outside a government hospital in Freetown on August 13, 2014. The World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed that the latest death toll from the Ebola virus in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria had claimed more than 1,000 lives as health organisations continue to look into the possible use of experimental drugs to combat the latest outbreak in West Africa which is also the largest Ebola outbreak in history.
The new WHO toll predates an attack overnight Saturday on a quarantine centre in the Liberian capital Monrovia that caused 17 Ebola patients to flee who remain missing.
The report shows that Sierra Leone recorded 38 new infections and 17 fatalities, bringing the total case in the country to 848 and death-toll to 365.
Guinea counted 24 new cases and 14 new deaths, lifting the total number of cases to 543, with 394 deaths.