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Sierra Leone Dispatches Troops to Enforce Ebola Quarantine : Troops and police have sealed off clinics and homes in hardest-hit localities

August 10, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU Uncategorized 0

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Sierra Leone has dispatched 750 soldiers to the epicenters of the nation’s Ebola outbreak to enforce sweeping new quarantine measures as the virus’ global death toll rose to at least 932 people as of Wednesday. Liberia’s president ordered a 30-day state of emergency because of the Ebola outbreak late Wednesday, according to a radio broadcast.

Troops and police have been stationed outside of local clinics and family homes, the New York Times reports, amid reports of concerned family members trespassing into quarantined areas and coming into contact with sick patients and infected bodies.

Credit : TIME Magazine

 

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