There were 128 new cases in the same period,
as West Africa is gripped by the worst-ever
outbreak of the tropical virus. There have been 56 more deaths in a 48-
hour period in West Africa's ebola
outbreak, bringing the total number of
fatalities to 1,069.
The vast majority of deaths have been in
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
There have also been three deaths in
Nigeria, following the worst-ever outbreak
which began in March.
In the two days to August 11, there were
128 new cases, meaning a total of 1,975,
according to the World Health
Organisation.
Many of the dead are health workers,
who are often working with inadequate
supplies and protection.
Among the victims is the first European -
a Spanish priest who died on Tuesday in a
Madrid hospital after being infected while
treating ebola patients in Liberia. Several hundred mourners have attended
a funeral service for missionary Miguel
Pajares in the capital.
The 75-year-old man was cremated
shortly after he died and his ashes were
taken in an urn in a black hearse to the
chapel of San Rafael hospital.
He had been treated with an
experimental US serum, ZMapp.
The drug is also being used on two
Americans, Dr Kent Brantly and Nancy
Writebol, in the US who were infected
with the disease in Liberia. Meanwhile, a consignment of ZMapp has
arrived by plane in Liberia to treat two
doctors suffering from the virus.
It will be taken to the John F Kennedy
Memorial hospital in the capital Monrovia
and administered to doctors Zukunis
Ireland and Abraham Borbor.
It comes after Liberia's presidency said
the US has approved a request for sample
doses of the drug to be sent to the
country.
Guinea is considering asking for access to
the vaccine and has declared the
outbreak a "health emergency".
Ebola has a fatality rate of up to 90%.
A senior doctor in England, virologist
Christopher Logue, is travelling to Guinea
to help deal with the crisis by leading
laboratory tests on people who may have
come into contact with the virus.

Source: news.sky.com/story/1318129/ebola-outbreak-56-people-dead-in-two-days