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Learning from Ebola: how Sierra Leone is routinely tackling coronavirus

Health workers rest outside a quarantine zone at a Red Cross facility in the town of Koidu, Kono district in Eastern Sierra Leone December 19, 2014. Sierra Leone, neighbouring Guinea and Liberia are at the heart of the world's worst recorded outbreak of Ebola. Rates of infection are rising fastest in Sierra Leone, which now accounts for more than half of the 18,603 confirmed cases of the virus. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (SIERRA LEONE - Tags: HEALTH DISASTER TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EACJ1T7L01

Sierra Leone is leaning of lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak to prepare them for a potential COVID-19 outbreak. Image: REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Jia B. Kangbai
PhD Research Fellow, Center for International Health, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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Over two years, a total of 28,616 cases of EVD were reported in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Image: CDC.gov
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