“As of today we have 48 contacts, of which four have developed symptoms under surveillance, and three are in hospital isolation,” he added.
Authorities did not specify when the deaths occurred.
On February 13, Equatorial Guinea announced the death in the east of the country of nine people between January 7 and February 7 of the Marburg virus disease.
It is treated, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), of the “first epidemic of Marburg virus disease” in this small African countrylocated in the center-west of the continent.
Having declared a “health alert” in a province and a neighboring district in the east, the authorities implemented a lockdown plan in close collaboration with the WHO to deal with the epidemic.
Only three people who presented “mild symptoms” of the disease were in isolation in a hospital in this sparsely populated and rural area, bordering Gabon and Cameroon, the authorities specified at the time.
