Sierra Leone To Shut Down For 3 Days To Slow Ebola

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
18 September 2014
Tags:
Sierra Leone, Governance, Health and Medicine

Shoppers in Sierra Leone rushed to stock up on food Thursday ahead of a three-day nationwide shutdown, during which the country's 6 million people will be confined to their homes while volunteers search house-to-house for Ebola victims in hiding and hand out soap in a desperate bid to slow the accelerating outbreak.



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