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A total of 4,951 people have died from the Ebola virus and there have been 13,567 cases in eight countries since the outbreak began, the WHO said in a statement Friday. The figures are current up to October 29.
In Liberia, which has been hit the hardest by the outbreak, 3,280 people had been infected with Ebola -- more than half in the preceding three weeks -- and 1,677 of them had died. In Sierra Leone, Ebola had meanwhile infected 1,940 people and killed 593 of them. The three weeks since September 1 accounted for 38 percent of total infections. The situation in the country continues to deteriorate, WHO said, blaming especially a sharp increase in the number of new cases reported in Freetown.