Lock Down Of 700 Homes Over Ebola Death In Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone said on Friday it had placed hundreds of homes in the capital under quarantine, in a huge blow for its recovery from the Ebola crisis less than a month after it lifted all travel restrictions."Some 700 homes have been quarantined for 21 days in the tourism and fishing community of Aberdeen in the west of the capital Freetown, following the emergence of a new case of Ebola, the death of a fisherman who was later diagnosed Ebola positive," Obi Sesay, of the government's National Ebola Response Centre, said.

The World Health Organization has warned that challenges remain in bringing the number of cases down to zero and has urged West Africans to maintain the measures used to stop transmission of the virus.
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