Kenya confirms four more Ebola cases, bringing total to seven

The Kenyan government says four new patients have tested positive for the Ebola Bundibugyo virus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the East African nation to seven. Three of the new cases were among health workers who treated the country’s first patient, Kenya’s Ministry of Health said in a statement posted on X on Saturday. The fourth case is a relative of that same patient, who died from the disease, it added. The relative had been in quarantine since October 6, the ministry said. This comes a day after Kenya confirmed three cases in the country. The patient identified on Friday was a “primary contact and a close relative of the first and second cases”, the Health Ministry said.