Updated 12 Aug 2014 @ 09:38
Two more people have been infected with Ebola in Nigeria, bringing the total number of cases there to nine as the outbreak spreads through West Africa.
All the infected patients are reportedly in hospital in Lagos.
Two people have died of Ebola in Nigeria.
The country has banned the transport of corpses across national and state borders, in an attempt to halt an outbreak that has killed over 1 000 people in West Africa.
Meanwhile, Senegal has reported its first suspected Ebola case, in the nation's north.
The World Health Organization says 1 013 have died from Ebola in West Africa since February.
The Liberian army has put a third province under quarantine in an attempt to halt the spread of the Ebola virus.
Lofa county in the north has now been quarantined by the army. Similar measures have been taken in the provinces of Boma and Grand Cape Mount.
In other news, Liberia will receive an untested experimental drug, Zmapp, to treat people infected with Ebola.
Zmapp has been used in the US on two aid workers who have shown signs of improvement.
However, the drug has only been tested on monkeys and has not yet been evaluated for safety in humans.
Meanwhile, Ivory Coast has banned all passenger flights from the three countries hit the worst by the spread of Ebola: Guinea; Liberia; and Sierra Leone.
It is the second country, after Saudi Arabia, to impose such a ban in a bid to prevent the spread of the deadly virus.
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