Ebola virus is still a major threat to Sierra Leone . A hooping number of 690 people were yesterday quarantined in the district of Bombali in northern Sierra Leone after a 16-year-old girl named Kadiatu Thullah died of the deadly disease at the International Medical Corps Ebola treatment unit on Sunday, the 13th of September.
According to the head of the Sierra Leone National Ebola Response Centre, Pallo Conteh who spoke on the new development,
“some 690 people in the village of Robuya where Kadiatu lived would be isolated for three weeks. Seven of her primary contacts have been taken to the Ebola treatment unit. Three patients who came into contact with the girl at another health facility have also been taken to the treatment unit.”.
This is quite saddening as the country celebrated the discharge of the last remaining known Ebola patient from its treatment centres last month after thousands of people had died from the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone which happens to be one of the worst cases of the outbreak. Other countries which lost a good number of people are Guinea and Liberia.
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