Sierra Leone Delays Independence Celebrations to Focus on Ebola
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Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma postponed Monday’s Independence Day celebration to focus on controlling the Ebola outbreak.
The country has had no new cases of the virus for two days, according to the latest data from the health ministry. A nation can be declared Ebola free after not reporting new infections after 42 days, twice the incubation period.