{"id":5124,"date":"2014-09-06T09:42:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T02:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5124"},"modified":"2014-09-06T09:42:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T02:42:58","slug":"sierra-leone-to-impose-ebola-curfew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-to-impose-ebola-curfew\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone to impose Ebola curfew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone has announced that it will impose a four-day, countrywide &#8220;lockdown&#8221; in an escalation of efforts to halt the spread of Ebola across the West African nation.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens will not be allowed to leave their homes between September 18 and September 21 in a bid to prevent the disease from spreading further and to allow health workers to identify cases in the early stages of the illness, a presidential advisor on the country&#8217;s Ebola task force said on Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sierra Leone News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/09\/sierra-leone-impose-ebola-curfew-201495215943588557.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone has announced that it will impose a four-day, countrywide &#8220;lockdown&#8221; in an escalation of efforts to halt the spread of Ebola across the West African nation. Citizens will not be allowed to leave their homes between September 18 and September 21 in a bid to prevent the disease from spreading further and to [&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":[1109],"tags":[258,256,2346,1111,3892,3893,257,4714,1135,254,4692],"class_list":["post-5124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-curfew","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-curfew","tag-ebola-task-force","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124","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=5124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/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=5124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}