‘Every hour making coffins’: Funerals, wakes banned as WHO lifts Ebola threat to ‘very high’

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With the WHO lifting the Ebola threat to 'very high', funerals and wakes have been banned due to the escalating number of suspected cases and deaths. The response is pivotal in controlling the outbreak.

There are now 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths, and one senior official has described the effort to stop the rapid spread as “a race against the clock”.