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