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Sierra Leone eases blocks on travel, business as Ebola wanes

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ASSOCIATED PRESS  by Clarence Roy-Macaulay                                                                  Jan. 23, 2015

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- With the Ebola outbreak weakening in West Africa, Sierra Leone eased restrictions on movement and commercial activity Friday even as the president warned that the fight against the deadly disease is not yet over.

The outbreak has sickened more than 21,000 people, nearly half of them in Sierra Leone. But the number of new infections is now falling in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, the three most affected countries.

President Ernest Bai Koroma announced in a national broadcast that, starting Friday, the country would lift all district quarantines and extend business hours on Saturdays. Koroma said that while people must remain vigilant, easing the restrictions would jump-start the economic recovery. In addition to its human toll, Ebola has hammered the economies of the three most affected West African nations...Sierra Leone plans to reopen schools in March...

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