Nearly 1,400 patients were currently registered in hospitals in  the capital and rural areas, said Thierry Dumont, a physician with  the aid group Doctors Without Borders. Many more infected victims  were languishing in their homes without care.

The deaths were recorded since the epidemic began in mid-December, although most occurred since March.

Doctors Without Borders distributed more than 130,000 vaccines  in northern and central areas of the country this week and another  200,000 doses were being prepared, Dumont said.

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