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

Ebola crisis: Sierra Leone declares three-day lockdown in north

Health workers carry the body of a suspected Ebola victim for burial at a cemetery in Freetown December 21, 2014.

Sierra Leone has declared lockdown of at least three days in the north of the country to try to contain the Ebola epidemic

Sierra Leone seeing 80-100 new Ebola cases daily

Surgeon with Ebola coming to US for care

FILE – In this Oct. 28, 2006, file photo, a mock patient is wheeled in an isolation pod during a drill at the Nebraska biocontainment unit in the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb. A federal government source said Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, a surgeon working in West Africa’s Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown to the United States for treatment on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014. The doctor will be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Thousands break Ebola quarantine to find food

FILE-In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, Healthcare workers load a man, center, onto a ambulance as he is suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus in Kenema, Sierra Leone. A doctor in Sierra Leone has died of Ebola — the fifth local doctor in the West African nation to die of the disease, authorities said Monday, Nov. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Tanya Bindra, File)

Sierra Leone begins three-day Ebola lockdown

Volunteers will go door-to-door to test people for the virus and take infected people to treatment centres.

A three-day curfew or lockdown to try to stop the spread of the Ebola virus has come into effect in Sierra Leone

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

Canada pulling team from Sierra Leone over Ebola fears

Health workers wearing protective gear go to remove the body of a person who is believed to have died after contracting the Ebola virus in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014.

Troops deploy in Sierra Leone, Liberia to try to stop Ebola spread

Soldiers have been deployed to the streets of Liberia to prevent panic as fears spread about the deadly virus.

Sierra Leone declares state of emergency over Ebola

Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma attends a meeting of regional group Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Yamoussoukro June 29, 2012.    REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon