Sierra Leone authorities have called on the country's 6 million inhabitants to stay in their homes for three days beginning Friday to curb the spreading Ebola virus.
The de-facto curfew is set to start a day after the United Nations Security Council called the Ebola outbreak a threat to international peace and security Thursday.
As part of the three-day lockdown, officials plan to go house to house searching for infected people in hiding, according to multiple news reports
Doctors Without Borders, an international aid group, has criticized the tactic, noting that the shutdown could scare the diseased, worsening the outbreak by driving the infected to continue to hide. It could also erode trust built between doctors and the public Read more...
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