The spread of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has set fear in
the government, Sierra Leone President, Ernest Bai Koroma has declared a state
of public emergency to tackle the worst ever outbreak and will call in security
forces to quarantine epicentres of the deadly virus. Koroma announced he was
cancelling a visit to Washington for a U.S.-Africa summit next week, because of
the crisis and instead holding an emergency meeting with regional leaders in
Guinea on Friday.
"I hereby proclaim a State of Public Emergency to enable us
take a more robust approach to deal with the Ebola outbreak," he said in a
speech late on Wednesday, adding that the measures would initially last between
60 and 90 days. "All epicenters of the disease will be quarantined."
Koroma said that the police and the military would restrict
movements to and from epicenters, and would provide support to health officers
and NGOs to do their work unhindered, following a number of attacks on
healthworkers by local communities. He said that house-to-house searches would
be implemented to trace Ebola victims and quarantine them.
12 Comments
Frightening
ReplyDeleteI dun blame them
ReplyDeleteWho will go help
ReplyDeleteGod help Africa
ReplyDeleteIsn't it better Ebola keps its cool & stay away from Nigeria becos we can't fight it & boko haram at the same time
ReplyDeleteGod be with us oooooo
ReplyDeleteIt is very scary disease
ReplyDeleteBut I kept asking where did people see ape, bat meat to eat? I feel there's more that meets the eyes in this Ebola thing
ReplyDeleteBetter for them
ReplyDeleteThey should do something fast
ReplyDeleteFrightening indeed
ReplyDeleteChai
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