West Africa Ebola toll hits 603 as 68 more die

The death toll in West Africa’s Ebola outbreak has risen to 603, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, with 68 new fatalities mostly in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

The UN health agency said the new deaths were recorded between July 8 and 12, and that 52 of them were in Sierra Leone, 13 in Liberia and three in Guinea, which previously had borne the brunt of the outbreak.

AFP