Guinea records 2 Ebola deaths in fresh outbreak

CONAKRY, Guinea

Guinean authorities have announced the death of two people from Ebola virus, after the country was declared Ebola-free last December.

"The results [analysis] revealed the presence of the Ebola virus in two people from the same family, who died earlier," the government said in a statement on Thursday night.

The two people died on Tuesday in N’zerekore, in southern Guinea.

Three other cases have also been found in the same family.

"Health authorities have taken appropriate measures to contain the spread of the disease," the statement said, without specifying the reasons for the resurgence of the epidemic.

An extraordinary meeting of the National Coordination of the Fight against Ebola is scheduled for Friday, the government said.

More than 11,300 people died from the Ebola epidemic that swept West Africa in 2014 during the worst-ever outbreak of the disease, according to the World Health Organization.