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Sierra Leone News : Police Quarantine 15 Houses at Mount Aureol under F.B.C.
By Jeneba V. Kabba
Sep 2, 2014, 17:18
Police attached to the Eastern Police Division have now quarantined 15 houses in the Mount Aureol Community located under hills of famous Fourah Bay College campus. Rapid inexplicable deaths in the community with corpses being buried un-reported, are now being suspected as having been caused by the Ebola epidemic that is now known to be spreading in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. Dozens of laboratory confirmed cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Freetown within the last fortnight alone.
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Speaking to our reporter in an exclusive interview on Monday 1st September 2014 the Operations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Kelvin Samura said under the command of AIG Memuna Kargbo his men have intensified operations as the Ebola epidemic continues to spread. He disclosed that as recent as yesterday they have quarantined 15 houses in the Mount Aureol community. He said they have deployed 75 police personnel at the quarantined areas at Mount Aureol to ensure suspected people stay indoors and not to spread the Ebola virus if they happen to be infected.
According to him, they got reports that 11 people died in that community in just a couple of days and this warranted investigations and subsequently quarantine of area within which the deaths occured; totalling 15 houses.
The Operations Officer said the residents act of burying corpses that died without prior notice to Ministry of Health and Sanitation...
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200526119.shtml
By Jeneba V. Kabba
Sep 2, 2014, 17:18
Police attached to the Eastern Police Division have now quarantined 15 houses in the Mount Aureol Community located under hills of famous Fourah Bay College campus. Rapid inexplicable deaths in the community with corpses being buried un-reported, are now being suspected as having been caused by the Ebola epidemic that is now known to be spreading in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. Dozens of laboratory confirmed cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Freetown within the last fortnight alone.
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Speaking to our reporter in an exclusive interview on Monday 1st September 2014 the Operations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Kelvin Samura said under the command of AIG Memuna Kargbo his men have intensified operations as the Ebola epidemic continues to spread. He disclosed that as recent as yesterday they have quarantined 15 houses in the Mount Aureol community. He said they have deployed 75 police personnel at the quarantined areas at Mount Aureol to ensure suspected people stay indoors and not to spread the Ebola virus if they happen to be infected.
According to him, they got reports that 11 people died in that community in just a couple of days and this warranted investigations and subsequently quarantine of area within which the deaths occured; totalling 15 houses.
The Operations Officer said the residents act of burying corpses that died without prior notice to Ministry of Health and Sanitation...
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200526119.shtml