Sierra Leone has recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared in the West African country more than four months ago, government health statistics has shown.
 
The figures, which covered the period through Saturday, put the total number of deaths at 678, up from 557 the day before.

The daily statistics compiled by Sierra Leone’s Emergency Operations Centre also showed 81 new cases of the haemorrhagic fever.

The overall death toll from the epidemic reached 3,439 out of a total of 7,492 cases in West Africa and the United States as of October 1, the World Health Organization said last week. The United Nations’ agency’s statistics varied from those compiled by Sierra Leone.