Sierra Leone Village Quarantined After Fresh Ebola Death

Nearly 1,000 people in Sierra Leone have been put under quarantine
following the death of a 67-year-old woman who tested positive to
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. More than 11,000 people have died since the start of the
Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

The BBC'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.

BBC 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. Soldiers and police have been deployed to keep
the quarantine in Sellakaffta, a village in Kambia on the northern
border with Guinea.

-BBC.