Sierra Leone Confirms 2 New Cases Of Ebola In Capital After 3 Weeks With No New Cases

Reuters: Ebola returns to Sierra Leone capital after three-week gap
“Sierra Leone has recorded two new cases of Ebola in Freetown in the past few days, disproving the assumption that the capital city had already defeated the deadly virus, officials said on Monday. … ‘This is worrisome because we had already closed all Ebola quarantine structures in Freetown since we had gone for weeks without a case,’ said Sidi Yahya Tunis, a spokesman for the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC)…” (Fofana, 6/22).

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