WHO declares end of Ebola in Sierra Leone

A MSF medical worker wearing protective clothing relays patient details behind a barrier at an MSF facility in Kailahun

Freetown - Sierra Leone has been declared free of its devastating Ebola outbreak.

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By AFP

Published: Sat 7 Nov 2015, 2:13 PM

Last updated: Sat 7 Nov 2015, 5:25 PM

The UN's health agency said on Saturday that Ebola-ravaged Sierra Leone had beaten an outbreak that killed almost 4,000 of its people and plunged the economy into severe recession.
"Today, November 7 2015, the World Health Organization declares the end of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone," World Health Organization (WHO) country representative Anders Nordstrom told a ceremony in the capital Freetown, to prolonged ecstatic cheers.

AFP

Published: Sat 7 Nov 2015, 2:13 PM

Last updated: Sat 7 Nov 2015, 5:25 PM

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