Sierra Leone has ordered the indefinite quarantine “with immediate effect” of three districts and 12 tribal chiefdoms – a move that will affect more than one million people. President Ernest Bai Koroma, in a national televised address on Wednesday, announced that the northern districts of Port Loko and Bombali were[…]
Sierra Leone has ended a three-day curfew to stem the world’s worst Ebola epidemic, with authorities claiming a “huge success” in identifying new infections and locating scores of bodies. The curfew ended at midnight on Sunday and was the most extreme strategy employed by a nation since the Ebola outbreak[…]
Sierra Leone’s top Ebola doctor has died from the disease, medical officials have said. Sheik Umar Khan was infected earlier this month and died on Tuesday at a ward run by medical charity Doctors Without Borders in the far north of the country. Miatta Kargbo, Sierra Leone’s health minister, called[…]
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