MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) – Liberian officials confirmed a second Ebola case on Wednesday in the same town where the disease was detected days earlier on the corpse of teenager, seven weeks after the country was declared Ebola-free.
The infected person was moved to Monrovia, said deputy health minister Tolbert Nyenswah.
Between 100 and 200 Ebola center workers stormed the Ministry of Health in eastern Monrovia on Wednesday demanding hazard pay that they said they haven’t received since the country was declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization on May 9.
Protesters turned off the building generator, an official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons, told The Associated Press.
“We are all held hostage in the building,” the official said, adding that police in the compound were not doing much to quell the protests.