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Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has killed more than 10,000 people in West Africa, the World Health Organisation has confirmed.

The virus, which claimed eight lives in Nigeria before it was declared Ebola-free, has done more harm to West Africa than any region of the world.

According to the latest situation reports from WHO, Liberia has recorded the most deaths with 4,162.

Sierra Leone is the second with 3,655 deaths, while Guinea has recorded 2,187 deaths, amounting to 10,004 in the three most affected countries.

Other countries hit by the disease in Africa are Senegal, Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which had the virus from a different strain of the viral disease.

Outside Africa, the deadly haemorrhagic fever touched Britain, United States, Spain and Germany.

The disease is on a decline in the ailing countries, as a total of 116 new confirmed cases were reported in the week to March, compared with 132 the previous week.

Liberia, whose last Ebola victim recovered on March 05, has  reported no new confirmed case for the second consecutive week.

New cases, numbering 11, were reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone in geographically contiguous areas around the coastal capital cities of Conakry and Freetown.