{"id":3521,"date":"2014-12-25T07:23:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T12:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2014-12-25T07:23:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T12:23:02","slug":"sierra-leone-orders-lockdown-over-ebola-africa-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone orders lockdown over Ebola – Africa – Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sierra Leone orders lockdown over Ebola – Africa – Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Sierra Leone government has\u00a0declared a five-day lockdown in the country’s north to step up efforts to\u00a0contain the Ebola epidemic, while making an exception for Christmas.<\/p>\n

The lockdown is designed to intensify the containment of the Ebola virus,\u00a0the government said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“Muslims and Christians are not allowed to hold services in mosques and\u00a0churches throughout the lockdown except for Christians on Christmas Day [Thursday],” Alie Kamara, resident minister for the Northern Region, told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

“We are working to break the chain of transmission,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sierra Leone orders lockdown over Ebola – Africa – Al Jazeera English. The Sierra Leone government has\u00a0declared a five-day lockdown in the country’s north to step up efforts to\u00a0contain the Ebola epidemic, while making an exception for Christmas. The lockdown is designed to intensify the containment of the Ebola virus,\u00a0the government said on Wednesday. “Muslims […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2145,232,2144,944],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ebola-epidemic","tag-ebola-virus","tag-lockdown","tag-sierra-leone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}