After an unidentified sickness claimed the lives of at least ten people on Friday, health officials in Equatorial Guinea placed more than 200 people under quarantine and placed movement restrictions on them.
Investigations so far indicate that the deaths were related to those who attended a burial service. Additionally, fever, weakness, bleeding, and diarrhea are among the signs.
The administration sent samples to Senegal and Gabon, Guinea’s neighbors, for additional testing, according to the health minister Mitoha Ondo’o Ayekaba.
Moving restrictions were put in place along the Equatorial Guinean border by neighboring Cameroon after the announcement.