Africa News
Village quarantined after Ebola death─── 05:53 Mon, 07 Sep 2015
Freetown - Nearly 1,000 people in Sierra Leone have been put under quarantine following the death of a 67-year-old woman who tested positive for Ebola last week.
It comes five days into a six-week countdown for the country to be officially declared Ebola-free.
The quarantine will last for three weeks, provided no new cases are recorded. More than 11,000 people have died since the start of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
The BBC in the capital of the country reports the authorities had been optimistic after a long period without any new Ebola cases and this caught them off-guard. A stricter quarantine has been put in place this time and soldiers and police have been deployed to the area.
