Sierra Leone records 130 new Ebola cases during 3-day lockdown

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Sierra Leone records 130 new Ebola cases during 3-day lockdown

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/sierra-leone-records-130-ebola-cases-during-3-133741368.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/dujZSLwOkApjOCgkqWi0.g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ZA/News/Reuters/2014-09-22T133741Z_1007970001_LYNXNPEA8L0KK_RTROPTP_2_OZATP-UK-HEALTH-EBOLA-LEONE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="An empty street is seen at the start of a three-day national lockdown in Freetown" align="left" title="An empty street is seen at the start of a three-day national lockdown in Freetown" border="0" /></a>FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone recorded 130 new cases of the Ebola virus during a three-day lockdown and it is waiting for test results on a further 39 suspected cases, Stephen Gaojia, head of the Ebola Emergency Operations Centre, said on Monday. The country had ordered its six million citizens to stay indoors until Sunday night in the most extreme strategy employed by a West African nation since the start of an epidemic that has infected 5,762 people since March and killed 2,793 of those. &quot;The exercise has been largely successful ... The outreach was just overwhelming. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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