{"id":38196,"date":"2014-08-10T10:35:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T10:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=38196"},"modified":"2014-08-10T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T10:35:04","slug":"guinea-closes-borders-over-ebola-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=38196","title":{"rendered":"Guinea closes borders over Ebola outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guinea has announced the closure of\u00a0its borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia in a bid\u00a0to halt the spread of Ebola,\u00a0the virus that has killed nearly\u00a01,000 people in the three West African countries this year.<\/p>\n

At least 367 people have died in Guinea since March\u00a0and 18 others are being treated in the country in isolation, but\u00a0the decision was taken primarily to avoid infected people\u00a0crossing into the state, authorities said.<\/p>\n

“We have provisionally closed the frontier between Guinea\u00a0and Sierra Leone because of all the news that we have received\u00a0from there recently,” Health Minister Ramy Lamah told a news\u00a0conference on Saturday,\u00a0adding that Guinea had also closed its border with\u00a0Liberia.<\/p>\n

The measures had been taken in consultation with the two\u00a0neighbours, Moustapha Koutoub Sano, Guinea’s Minister for International Co-operation, told the news conference.<\/p>\n

The UN World Health Organisation said on Friday that Ebola\u00a0represents an\u00a0international health emergency<\/a>\u00a0and could continue\u00a0spreading for months.<\/p>\n

Nigeria became the third African nation, after Sierra Leone\u00a0and Liberia, to declare a national emergency on Friday as the\u00a0region’s healthcare systems struggle to cope with the advance of\u00a0one of the world’s\u00a0deadliest diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guinea has announced the closure of\u00a0its borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia in a bid\u00a0to halt the spread of Ebola,\u00a0the virus that has killed nearly\u00a01,000 people in the three West African countries this year. At least 367 people have died in Guinea since March\u00a0and 18 others are being treated in the country in isolation, but\u00a0the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38197,"comment_status":"closed","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":[2],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-38196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38196","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}