{"id":3962,"date":"2014-07-12T12:13:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T05:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2014-07-12T12:13:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T05:13:36","slug":"ebola-deaths-mount-in-liberia-and-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/ebola-deaths-mount-in-liberia-and-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola deaths mount in Liberia and Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High numbers of new cases of the Ebola virus are being reported in Sierra Leone and Liberia, with 19 deaths over three days this week, the UN&#8217;s World Health Organization (WHO) says.<\/p>\n<p>Such figures showed that it was a race against time to control the epidemic in Sierra Leone, medical charity MSF said.<\/p>\n<p>In total there have been 539 deaths in West Africa since the outbreak began in neighbouring Guinea in February.<\/p>\n<p>Regional leaders have now agreed to set up a fund to combat its spread.<br \/>\nContinue reading the main story<\/p>\n<p>At a summit of the regional body Ecowas in Ghana on Thursday, Nigeria&#8217;s President Goodluck Jonathan agreed to contribute $3m (\u00a31.8m) to the fund&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Liberia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28268430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High numbers of new cases of the Ebola virus are being reported in Sierra Leone and Liberia, with 19 deaths over three days this week, the UN&#8217;s World Health Organization (WHO) says. Such figures showed that it was a race against time to control the epidemic in Sierra Leone, medical charity MSF said. In total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086,1109],"tags":[258,256,1110,2557,4712,1107,1951,257,4714,254,4692,447,446],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola-virus","tag-ecowas","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-msf","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}