Just when we believe it's over! A new outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has been reported in Sierra Leone, after the virus killed a 16-year-old girl in a rural suburb of the city of Makeni in the country's north that had not recorded a single case of the deadly virus in about six months.
Health authorities have quarantined almost 700 people as they battle to contain the fresh outbreak.The Ebola surveillance response centre have intensified their investigation so as to nip the issue in the bud.
The National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) said 1,524 people were in quarantine across the two districts.
President Ernest Bai Koroma led a festive ceremony celebrating the discharge of Sierra Leone's last known Ebola patient, from a Makeni hospital on August 24.
No new cases had been recorded in more than two weeks, allowing Sierra Leone to join neighbouring Liberia in the countdown to being declared Ebola-free.
The deadly virus has killed more then 11,000 since the first outbreak in December 2013.
Source: Al Jazeera
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