{"id":148945,"date":"2015-09-04T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=148945"},"modified":"2015-09-04T16:51:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T16:51:20","slug":"sierra-leone-village-in-quarantine-after-ebola-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=148945","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone village in quarantine after Ebola death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nearly 1,000 people in <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/25\/sierra-leone-ebola-workers-dump-bodies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sierra Leone<\/a><\/strong><\/span> have been put under quarantine following the death of a 67-year-old woman who tested positive for Ebola.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It comes five days into a six-week countdown for the country to be officially declared Ebola-free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The quarantine will last for three weeks, provided no new cases are recorded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Al35pIzd7lRMlzTzcGxor7aaePMnuTWh&#8221;]More than 11,000 people have died since the start of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BBC&#8217;s Umaru Fofana in the capital, Freetown, says the authorities had been optimistic after a long period without any new Ebola cases and this caught them off-guard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our correspondent says the quarantine is stricter than previous ones. It includes a curfew in which people will not be allowed to move from one house to another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soldiers and police have been deployed to keep the quarantine in Sellakaffta, a village in Kambia on the northern border with Guinea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Health Organization and Sierra Leone&#8217;s health ministry are planning a vaccination programme for those who could have come into contact with the woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guinea is still trying to contain its outbreak while the WHO announced that the Ebola virus had stopped spreading in Liberia for a second time on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It had been declared free of Ebola transmission in May but then more cases were found the following month.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Credit:BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Al35pIzd7lRMlzTzcGxor7aaePMnuTWh&#8221;]More than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":148947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-148945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}