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Nurses
wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) treat Ebola patients at the Kenema
treatment center run by the Red Cross Society on November 15, 2014 ©Francisco
Leong (AFP)
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Sierra Leone has not
recorded a single new case of Ebola in the past four weeks, the authorities
said, keeping the west African country on course to being declared free of the
killer virus next month. The last two known Ebola patients were discharged from
hospital in late September, allowing Sierra Leone to begin the standard 42-day
countdown to becoming Ebola-free.
"Sierra
Leone has no Ebola-positive case recorded in the country for the fourth
consecutive week," the head of the government's National Ebola Response
Centre, Palo Conteh, said at a press conference, adding that there were no more
people in quarantine either.
