New Ebola dead in Sierra Leone

freetown - In Sierra Leone is a boy succumbed to the contagious Ebola virus. The announcement of the death comes just hours after the World Health Organization had announced that a end had come to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Sierra Leone has already been declared Ebola free on November 7. Two tests on the body of a boy who is deceased in the north of the country, showed that he died of Ebola. That the Ministry of Health told the BBC. It is not known when the boy died.

The Ebola epidemic broke out in March 2014 and affected mostly the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The virus took more than 11 000 lives. It was the worst outbreak of ebola until now.