Red Cross trains staff as Kenya records its second death from Ebola

As Kenya records its second death from Ebola, with nine confirmed cases, the Red Cross has been training its staff in Nairobi in how to handle victims. It says the fight to contain the virus does not end when a patient dies, saying the handling and burial of the body is one of the highest risk ways the disease is transmitted. Today we are basically just trying to do some bit of simulations. In the country, we are the ones who have been delegated the mandate to be able to handle burials of victims as a result of Ebola, as we did with the first case. So we're just, of course, in the routine of timely trying to refresh our teams on the safe and dignified burial to just ensure that the teams are always ready to be able to undertake any case whenever they appear. Kenya's first case was a man who traveled to Nairobi from the Democratic Republic of Congo and died in the city on the 5th of October. The Health Ministry says the person who passed away on Friday was a direct contact of the index patient. Now we can be able to trace basically how all the nine confirmed cases basically got infected because they are basically linked to the index case and therefore the details are quite clear that based on the chain and how it was from the index case and now we're having the ninth case, it's quite clear that these were close family members or close relatives which basically at one point or the other interacted with the index case. The health ministry says the remaining seven patients continue to receive care in two isolation facilities. More than 4,000 people have died in Africa since Ebola was confirmed in the Congo in May. The outbreak has now been reported in four countries on the continent.