Saturday, February 21, 2015

Liberia will end Ebola curfew and reopen borders, says president

Liberian President Johnson-Sirleaf sits aboard a ship carrying emergency health supplies provided by the Netherlands to aid in the fight against the Ebola virus at the port of Liberia in Monrovia Liberia plans to lift a night curfew imposed six months ago and reopen borders closed to contain the spread of Ebola, as the threat from the virus recedes, the president said on Friday. Liberia was once the epicentre of an epidemic that has killed over 9,000 people in West Africa, but new infections have fallen off dramatically in recent months. "President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has ordered the lifting of the curfew imposed nationwide.








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