Llegada de solicitantes de asilo tras anuncio de Gobierno

Casi 400 inmigrantes han logrado ingresar a Estados Unidos a través de la frontera de California desde diciembre pasado, en gran proporción en lo que va de este mes de febrero, y se espera que esas cifras aumenten de forma considerable a partir del próximo 19 de febrero.

A partir de esa fecha, el Gobierno empezará a permitir la entrada en el país de unos 25.000 migrantes con casos activos bajo el programa Protocolos de Protección a Migrantes (MPP, en inglés), también conocido como "Permanezca en México".

The World Health Organisation pledged emergency assistance to Guinea on Sunday after the country's health agency said it was seeing a new Ebola "epidemic", including the first deaths from the disease since 2016. The Democratic Republic of Congo also confirmed a fourth Ebola case in North Kivu province.

The head of Guinea's health agency said Sunday that the country was in the midst of an Ebola "epidemic situation" with seven cases confirmed in the West African nation, including three deaths.

"Very early this morning, the Conakry laboratory confirmed the presence of the Ebola virus," Sakoba Keita said after an emergency meeting in the capital.

Health Minister Remy Lamah had earlier spoken of four deaths. It was not immediately clear why the toll had been reduced.

The cases marked the first known resurgence of the virus in West Africa since a 2013-2016 epidemic that began in Guinea and left more than 11,300 dead across the region.

A World Health Organisation representative said it would rapidly send assistance.

Keita, head of the National Agency for Health Security, said one person had died in late January in Gouecke, near the Liberian border.

The funeral took place in Gouecke on February 1 "and some people who took part in this funeral began to have symptoms of diarrhoea, vomiting, bleeding and fever a few days later," he said.

The first samples tested by a laboratory set up by the European Union in Gueckedou, located in the same region, revealed the presence of the Ebola virus in some of them, said Keita.

He added that with a total of seven cases and three deaths, Guinea was now in an "Ebola epidemic situation."