Sierra Leone orders three-day lockdown against Ebola

Health workers from Sierra Leone’s Red Cross Society Burial Team 7 preparing to carry a corpse out of a house in Freetown.   Photo: FRANCISCO LEONG/AFP

Country has set goal of cutting off the disease’s spread by April 16

Sierra Leone declares Ebola lockdown

Sierra Leone – one of the countries worst hit by West Africa’s Ebola outbreak – has announced a three-day lockdown to try to tackle the disease