CRI听力:Liberia Locates Runaway Ebola Patients

Liberian authorities say they've managed to locate all the patients being tested for Ebola who fled a medical center after it was looted over the weekend.

Liberia's information minister says all 17 are to be transferred to another clinic in the capital, Monrovia.

The 17 disappeared after locals in Monrovia, frustrated with a perceived lack of progress by the government in combating Ebola, stormed the facility where they were being isolated.

Their disappearance has led to concerns about the potential for a wide-scale spread of the virus.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization says the death toll across the 4 West African countries currently dealing with the Ebola outbreak has surpassed 12-hundred.

The WHO is urging all the Ebola-affected countries to screen all passengers leaving their respective international airports, sea ports and major ground crossings to prevent the spread of the disease.

Guinean authorities are launching new sanitation programs at its borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Albert Camara is a Guinean government spokesperson.

"We have decided to take a sanitary belt around the area where Ebola is, that is to say, the borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone, in the area of Gueckedou. So that all people that are going in those countries and coming from those countries can be controlled to see whether they have Ebola or not, or they are in risk of Ebola."

In Sierra Leone, the UN has launched and 18-million US dollar appeal to help combat the Ebola outbreak.

Meanwhile, the government of Cameroon has decided to close its border with Nigeria to prevent the spread of the virus, even though Nigeria only dealing with a handful of Ebola cases which were injected into the country from a traveler from Liberia.