Sierra Leone is to enforce a three-day lockdown of key parts of the country to try to contain the Ebola epidemic.
A three-day curfew in September, keeping
people at home under quarantine, was hailed as a success by the
authorities, despite some criticism.
The country's National Ebola Response Centre
says the new lockdown which will come into force next week is expected
to affect close to two point five million people.
While the number of cases has slowed since the peak of the outbreak, the virus is far from eradicated.
Meanwhile a tablet device that can withstand
being doused in chlorine has been developed to help doctors caring for
patients with Ebola.
Designed by technology volunteers and Google, it can also be used when wearing gloves and in storms and high humidity.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) put out a call for an Ebola-proof tablet to help the teams’ record vital patient information.
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