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Sierra Leone is to enforce three days of “complete shutdown” across the country later this month in a bid to contain the Ebola epidemic, a government spokesman said today.

The measure, which will come into force from September 19, means pedestrians and vehicles on non-essential business will be barred from movement for 72 hours.

“This will be strictly adhered to without exception,” government spokesman Abdulai Bayratay told AFP by telephone.

Authorities in Freetown will use the 72-hour quarantine window to give medical staff access to patients who have yet to be transferred to treatment centres, Bayratay said.

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