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Sierra Leone has ordered the quarantine of over a million more people in different areas to contain the deadly Ebola virus. In a nationally televised address on Wednesday, President Ernest Bai Koroma announced that the quarantine "with immediate effect" was ordered in three districts and 12 tribal chiefdoms. He said the order takes effect in the southern district of Moyamba as well as the northern districts of Port Loko and Bombali, sealing off around 1.2 million people in the West African country. The announcement comes a month after the quarantine of communities in eastern districts of Kenema and Kailahun. The recent lockdown in West Africa now affects more than a third of the country’s six million population.
"The isolation of districts and chiefdoms will definitely pose great difficulty but the lives of everyone and the survival of our country takes precedence over these difficulties," Koroma said. "These are trying moments for everyone in the country,” he added. Health professionals and critics of the controversial lockdown say it was a poorly planned publicity stunt since health professionals were not trained properly. Health organizations say the deadliest Ebola epidemic on record has infected almost 6,000 people in Sierra Leone and neighboring Liberia and Guinea, killing nearly half of them. In Sierra Leone alone, the epidemic has claimed nearly 600 lives, they say.
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Sierra Leone has ordered the quarantine of over a million more people in different areas to contain the deadly Ebola virus. In a nationally televised address on Wednesday, President Ernest Bai Koroma announced that the quarantine "with immediate effect" was ordered in three districts and 12 tribal chiefdoms. He said the order takes effect in the southern district of Moyamba as well as the northern districts of Port Loko and Bombali, sealing off around 1.2 million people in the West African country. The announcement comes a month after the quarantine of communities in eastern districts of Kenema and Kailahun. The recent lockdown in West Africa now affects more than a third of the country’s six million population.
"The isolation of districts and chiefdoms will definitely pose great difficulty but the lives of everyone and the survival of our country takes precedence over these difficulties," Koroma said. "These are trying moments for everyone in the country,” he added. Health professionals and critics of the controversial lockdown say it was a poorly planned publicity stunt since health professionals were not trained properly. Health organizations say the deadliest Ebola epidemic on record has infected almost 6,000 people in Sierra Leone and neighboring Liberia and Guinea, killing nearly half of them. In Sierra Leone alone, the epidemic has claimed nearly 600 lives, they say.
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An American health organization is predicting that up to 1.4 million people could be infected by the Ebola virus by next January if preventive measures do not prove effective soon. In its weekly Morbidity and Mortality reports released Tuesday, the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) stated that, under the worst-case scenario, if “interventions don’t start working soon, as many as 1.4 million people could be infected by January 20.” The development came shortly after another report on the worsening epidemic in Africa by the World Health Organization (WHO), which estimated in an article in The New England Journal of Medicine that Ebola cases in the worst-hit African countries will extend to more than 20,000 by early November. The agency, however, did not extend predictions beyond that month. Commenting on the CDC’s drastic prediction, the WHO’s Director of Strategy Christopher Dye explained, “These kinds of projections are not to say that this is what is going to happen.” He added, “These projections say, ‘If there aren’t further measures put in place, these are the kinds of case numbers we’d expect to see.’”
The CDC developed a new modeling tool called EbolaResponse to estimate the likely number of future infections. The report was based on data from August but did not take into account the ongoing international Ebola relief efforts. In their worst-case scenario, the CDC researchers presumed that the Ebola cases are extensively underreported by a factor of 2.5 in Sierra Leone and Liberia, two of the three hardest-hit countries in West Africa. Meanwhile, as of September 19, the number of cases tied to the disease in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone has reached 5, 843. Some 2,800 people have also died of the disease.
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The World Health Organization has warned about a dramatic rise in the number of Ebola cases if all due measures are not taken to curb the epidemic. The United Nations health agency said in a report issued on Tuesday that the number of cases infected by the deadly virus will rise to 20,000 by November without “drastic improvements in control measures.” “We’ve rather modestly only extended the projections to November 2, but if you go to... January 2, you’re into hundreds of thousands,” said Christopher Dye, the director of strategy at the WHO. The World Health Organization had said in an earlier report that more than 5,700 people have been infected with the deadly virus in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo and over 2,800 people have died from the disease. Dye further noted that the epidemic of the fever might “rumble on as it has for the last few months for the next few years.” The WHO official also said that the “fear is that Ebola will become more or less a permanent feature of the human population.” The UN health agency says the Ebola outbreak has more or less been contained in Senegal and Nigeria and it will take at least six months to be brought under control..
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Dozens of dead bodies and about 150 new cases of the Ebola infection have been found after a three-day shutdown in Sierra Leone. This comes after the West African country confined its citizens for 72-hours to stem the deadly outbreak. Emergency services say three days of nationwide shutdown in Sierra Leone to contain the spread of the Ebola virus has come to an end. "We have an overflow of bodies which we still need to bury but this has been an everyday occurrence since the Ebola outbreak.... Now at least we have about 150 new cases," Steven Gaojia, head of the country's emergency operation noted earlier.
Sierra Leone's health minister says volunteers managed to reach around 80 percent of homes, deeming the action as a success. "We have learnt a lot from the campaign. Although this campaign has ended, there is a possibility we would have a similar one some other time," Health Minister Abubakarr Fofanah said, adding, "I cannot...give you [now] statistics about the total corpses collected during the three-day period as we are...awaiting returns from other parts of the country and this will be made known as soon as the full report is compiled."
Health professionals and critics of the controversial shutdown say it was a poorly planned publicity stunt since health professionals were not trained properly. More than 2,600 people have lost their lives in Sierra Leone and neighboring Liberia and Guinea so far this year.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has said West Africa’s deadly Ebola epidemic has killed over 2,800 people so far. According to the UN health agency, more than 5,700 people have been infected with the deadly virus in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo and 2,811 people have died from the disease. The WHO also said the outbreak has more or less been contained in Senegal and Nigeria, and that it will take at least six months to be brought under control. According the health officials on Monday, dozens of dead bodies and about 150 new cases of the Ebola infection have been found after a three-day shutdown in Sierra Leone. This comes after the West African country confined its citizens for 72-hours to stem the deadly outbreak.Emergency services say three days of nationwide shutdown in Sierra Leone to contain the spread of the Ebola virus has come to an end.
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