Sierra leonean Authorities has instituted a two weeks lockdown in the Eastern district of Kono, over an increase in the number of Ebola infections in the area. The district has been previously marked as an area where the epidemic was largely under control.
Sierra leone has overtaken Liberia as the country worst hit by Ebola and is currently face d with a shortage of treatment centers and trained staff.
Officials from the WHO, health ministry and US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered 87 bodies had been buried in 11 days.
Night-time curfew
Kono District Ebola Response Centre said it was placing the area on lockdown, allowing only essential vehicles in and out and introducing a night-time curfew.
AFP news agency reported that Sierra Leone announced on Friday that any public Christmas celebrations were banned, with plans to deploy soldiers on the streets during the festive period, in an effort to curb the spread of Ebola.
Sierra Leone's government said last week that it was working with the United Nations in Kono and the International Federation of the Red Cross was setting up a treatment centre there. The remote area has only one ambulance to transport the sick and blood samples for testing.
But in Liberia, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said it was withdrawing from northern Lofa County, a former Ebola hotspot, after no new patients were recorded at its treatment centre in Foya since October 30, allowing the centre's staff to be redeployed.
Ettore Mazzanti, MSF Project Coordinator in Foya, said efforts to contain the outbreak had been helped by explaining to local people how to avoid the virus, which has no known cure and is transmitted through the bodily fluids of sick people.
The Ebola response in Sierra Leone has been dogged by strikes by healthcare staff over pay and working conditions.
Despite government claims that it had reached a deal with junior doctors, Dr Jeredine George, president of the Junior Doctors' Association, told the Reuters news agency that its members would strike for a fourth day on Thursday.
They are demanding a specialised Ebola treatment clinic for Sierra Leonean doctors, 10 of whom have died since the outbreak began. Deputy Health Minister Madinatu Rahman has said plans are underway to get such a clinic set up this month.
Source: Reuters
Sierra leone Institutes a two weeks Ebola lockdown
Sierra leonean Authorities has instituted a two weeks lockdown in the Eastern district of Kono, over an increase in the number of Ebola infections in the area. The district has been previously marked as an area where the epidemic was largely under control.
Sierra leone has overtaken Liberia as the country worst hit by Ebola and is currently face d with a shortage of treatment centers and trained staff.
Officials from the WHO, health ministry and US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered 87 bodies had been buried in 11 days.
Night-time curfew
Kono District Ebola Response Centre said it was placing the area on lockdown, allowing only essential vehicles in and out and introducing a night-time curfew.
AFP news agency reported that Sierra Leone announced on Friday that any public Christmas celebrations were banned, with plans to deploy soldiers on the streets during the festive period, in an effort to curb the spread of Ebola.
Sierra Leone's government said last week that it was working with the United Nations in Kono and the International Federation of the Red Cross was setting up a treatment centre there. The remote area has only one ambulance to transport the sick and blood samples for testing.
But in Liberia, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said it was withdrawing from northern Lofa County, a former Ebola hotspot, after no new patients were recorded at its treatment centre in Foya since October 30, allowing the centre's staff to be redeployed.
Ettore Mazzanti, MSF Project Coordinator in Foya, said efforts to contain the outbreak had been helped by explaining to local people how to avoid the virus, which has no known cure and is transmitted through the bodily fluids of sick people.
The Ebola response in Sierra Leone has been dogged by strikes by healthcare staff over pay and working conditions.
Despite government claims that it had reached a deal with junior doctors, Dr Jeredine George, president of the Junior Doctors' Association, told the Reuters news agency that its members would strike for a fourth day on Thursday.
They are demanding a specialised Ebola treatment clinic for Sierra Leonean doctors, 10 of whom have died since the outbreak began. Deputy Health Minister Madinatu Rahman has said plans are underway to get such a clinic set up this month.
Source: Reuters
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