Three-day lockdown in Sierra Leone in bid to stamp out Ebola

Sierra Leone’s six million people are being confined to their homes for three days from today as the West African nation resorts again to a sweeping shutdown in a final push to stamp out Ebola.

Thousands of teams will fan out around the country, knocking on doors to remind people how Ebola is spread and how to prevent it. In the hot spots – the regions around the capital, Freetown, and in the north – health workers will also search for Ebola cases.