{"id":4588,"date":"2014-07-31T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T08:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2014-07-31T15:48:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T08:48:38","slug":"liberia-shuts-schools-to-tackle-ebola-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-shuts-schools-to-tackle-ebola-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia shuts schools to tackle Ebola outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia&#8217;s government has announced that it is closing down all schools across the country to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p>Some communities would be placed under quarantine as well, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said.<\/p>\n<p>Non-essential government workers will be sent home for 30 days and the army deployed to enforce the measures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Liberia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28576010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia&#8217;s government has announced that it is closing down all schools across the country to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Some communities would be placed under quarantine as well, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said. Non-essential government workers will be sent home for 30 days and the army deployed to enforce the measures&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,3326,1111,1110,4712,1107,257,2166,254,1112,4692],"class_list":["post-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-closing-down-all-schools","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-president-ellen-johnson-sirleaf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-virus","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}