Sierra Leone president orders three-day national lockdown against Ebola

Heath workers collect samples from the body of a person suspected to
have died from the Ebola virus, as it lies on the street covered in
leaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In a delay that some say may have
cost lives, the World Health Organization resisted calling the Ebola
outbreak in West Africa a public health emergency until the summer of
2014, two months after staff raised the possibility and long after a
senior manager called for a drastic change in strategy. (Photo: AP)
Sierra Leone : Sierra Leone's President Ernest Koromo ordered the
country's entire population Saturday to keep to their homes on March
27-29 in a bid to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola epidemic.
"All Sierra Leoneans must stay at home for three days," he announced,
expanding a previous order from the authorities for a lockdown in the
capital Freetown and northern areas of the country.