Sierra Leone records 245 ebola deaths on October 5 - a 42% increase in total recorded deaths

[Ronan Kelly]

PRESS RELEASE

EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 5, 2014
DISCHARGED CASES
? Total Survived and Released Patients = 477
NEW CASES
? New Confirmed cases = 81, as follows:
Kailahun = 1, Kenema = 0, Kono = 0
Bombali = 38, Kambia = 0, Koinadugu = 0, Port Loko =8, Tonkolili = 0
Bo = 10, Bonthe = 0, Moyamba = 6, Pujehun = 1
Western Area Urban = 14, Western Area Rural = 3
CUMULATIVE CASES
? Cumulative confirmed cases = 2,416 as follows:
Kailahun = 531, Kenema = 431, Kono =23
Bombali =294, Kambia =21, Koinadugu =0, Port Loko =340, Tonkolili = 86
Bo = 111, Bonthe = 1, Moyamba = 66, Pujehun = 22
Western Urban = 290, Western Rural = 200
? Ninety-one (53 positives & 38 negatives) pending Lab results from the Chinese Lab-Jui for the 30/09/14 to 3/10/14 have been included as cumulative figures and added to the specific districts

CUMULATIVE DEATHS
? Total cumulative confirmed death is 678
? Probable cases = 37
? Probable deaths = 123
? Suspected cases = 279
? Suspected deaths = 30
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[BestlaStormcrow]

Sierra Leone records 121 Ebola deaths in a single day

Sierra Leone records 121 Ebola deaths in a single day

(Reuters) - Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared in the West African country more than four months ago, government health statistics showed on Sunday.

The figures, which covered the period through Saturday, put the total number of deaths at 678, up from 557 the day before. The daily statistics compiled by Sierra Leone's Emergency Operations Centre also showed 81 new cases of the hemorrhagic fever.

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http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/10/06/us-health-ebola-leone-idINKCN0HU0ZT20141006

 

[JimO]

Re: Sierra Leone records 121 Ebola deaths in a single day

Re: Sierra Leone records 121 Ebola deaths in a single day

Their official count doesn't include the 265 bodies discovered during the 3-day lockdown. Counting those, they now have nearly 1,100 deaths resulting in a CFR of at least 70%.

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Sierra Leone records 121 ebola deaths on October 5 - a 20% increase in total recorded deaths

Re: Sierra Leone records 121 ebola deaths on October 5 - a 20% increase in total recorded deaths

Comparing the reports from Oct 4 http://health.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Ebola-Situation-Report_Vol-129.pdf and Oct 5 http://health.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Ebola-Situation-Report_Vol-130.pdf Confirmed deaths jumped by 140 (text gives total as 673, but table adds to 678) while deaths in probable cases jumped by 86 and suspected by 19. The result is a gain of 245 deaths - a 41.8% increase in one day. This may reflect the bodies found at the end of the three day lockdown. - Ro

Government of Sierra Leone
Ministry of Health and Sanitation
EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE - SITUATION REPORT (Sit-Rep) ? 05 October, 2014
Main highlights
For the 4th October 2014, a total of 159 new samples were received and analysed by the CDC Kenema Lab, the
South African NICD MLU Lab-Western Area and the Chinese Lab-Jui: Kailahun (2),Kenema (3),Kambia (1),Bombali
(60),Tonkolili (6),Port Loko (12), Pujehun (1),Bo (11),Moyamba (8) and Western Area (55).Eighty-one (81) of these
samples are positive, 56 are negative while 22 suspected cases have been recommended for a second test base on
the symptoms onset.(See table 1)
Twenty-five samples (11 positive & 14 negative) are not included in table 1 below because of missing district variable
Two suspected cases (1 positive from W/Area Urban & 1 negative from Bombali) that were recommended for a retest
have been finally analysed
Ninety-one (53 positives & 38 negatives) pending Lab results from the Chinese Lab-Jui for the 30/09/14 to 3/10/14
have included as cumulative figures
The cumulative number of Laboratory confirmed cases are 2,411 whiles confirmed death is 673 with a Case Fatality
Rate (CFR) based on confirmed cases of 28.1%.
The increase in the death cases is as a result of the going on data cleaning