SIERRA LEONE QUARANTINES A MILLON PEOPLE

The Guardian, Thursday 25 September 2014

• Lisa O'Carroll, and Agence France-Presse in Freetown

Sierra Leone’s government has quarantined more than a million people in an attempt to bring an end to the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.

Areas in the east of the country on the border of Guinea have been under quarantine for months but travel is now restricted in three more areas where an estimated 1.5 million people live. Nearly a third of the country’s population across 14 districts is now under curfew.

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In addition to announcing the new isolation districts, the government is establishing corridors for travel between non-quarantined districts, with a curfew on all travel outside the hours of 9am and 5pm. President Koroma said the isolation would “definitely pose great difficulties for our people in these districts”.

Link to full story:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/ebola-epidemic-sierra-leone-quarantine-un-united-nations