Sierra Leone declares a public emergency over Ebola and orders troops to quarantine infected areas as doctors say the virus is 'absolutely out of control'
President Ernest Bai Koroma said the measures resembled a tough anti-Ebola package announced by neighbouring Liberia last night.
President Ernest Bai Koroma also announced he was cancelling a visit to Washington for a U.S.-Africa summit next week because of the crisis.
The president of Sierra Leone said the police and military would restrict movements to and from epicentres and provide support to health workers to do their work unhindered
The move
came as world's premier health charity issued a grave warning about the
likely spread of the deadly Ebola virus - an epidemic it fears 'can only
get worse'.
Doctors
Without Borders (aka Médecins Sans Frontières [MSF]) says the threat of
the disease spreading beyond western Africa, where it was first
detected in Guinea in February, is frighteningly real and said it was
'absolutely out of control'.
Of the 672 deaths, the highest number was in Guinea with 319, followed by Sierra Leone with 224 and Liberia with 129
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