Two new cases of Ebola has been recorded in Freetown, Sierra Leone in the past few days, negating the assumption that the capital city had already defeated the deadly virus, officials said on Monday.
The worst known Ebola epidemic in history has killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa, about a third of them in Sierra Leone. Liberia became Ebola-free in May, but its neighbors Sierra Leone and Guinea are still struggling to get to zero cases despite hundreds of millions of dollars in aid.
Sidi Yahya Tunis, a spokesman for the National Ebola Response Center (NERC) narrates:
"This is worrisome because we had already closed all Ebola quarantine structures in Freetown since we had gone for weeks without a case."
Source: Reuters
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